{"id":40023,"date":"2014-02-25T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40023"},"modified":"2014-02-26T07:43:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:43:01","slug":"president-bush-beyond-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40023","title":{"rendered":"President Bush beyond 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/power-players-abc-news\/beyond-911-president-bush-s-new-initiative-to-help-the-vets-he-sent-to-war-230108985.html\">ABC News<\/a> did this interview that they set us, with former President Bush and Marine veteran Jacob Wood as they discuss their plan for helping veterans reintegrate into the US (<strong>Editor&#8217;s Note: Yahoo is stingy with their videos, but you can see it at the link above<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush said he takes inspiration today from the resilience of hundreds of veterans he\u2019s met over the years who\u2019ve overcome post-war trauma and injuries to lead productive lives. He pointed to the example of Dan Gade, a veteran who resolved to conquer his handicap as a one-legged amputee so that he could once again play Legos with his young daughter. Gade has since been able to ride a mountain bike alongside the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to Gade, \u2018I&#8217;m sorry you got your leg blown off,&#8217;\u201d Bush recalled. \u201cHe said, \u2018I&#8217;d do it again.\u2019 There&#8217;s no self-pity, no \u2018woe is me.\u2019 It is, \u2018I&#8217;m going to continue to live life to the fullest.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bush was joined by Marine Corps veteran Jacob Wood, who is collaborating with the former president on his Military Service Initiative. After returning from service in the Iraq and Afghanistan, Wood co-founded Team Rubicon, an organization that employs veterans in disaster relief efforts. He said it was significant that Bush is showing leadership within the post-9\/11 veteran community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rather than read my pointless blather, go read the rest of the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, ABC News did this interview that they set us, with former President &hellip; <a title=\"President Bush beyond 9\/11\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40023\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President Bush beyond 9\/11<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-you-miss-me-yet","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}