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| Netlore Archive: Emailed photo shows President Bush running beside U.S. Army Sgt. Mike McNaughton, who lost his leg in a land mine explosion in Afghanistan | |||
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Email example contributed by Tim A., 28 May 2004:
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Subject: Fw: What doesn't make the news I thought this was worth passing along. I'm sick of all the negative stuff from both sides. Attached is a picture of one of my best friends in the Army, Mike McNaughton. We were privates together in 1990-1994. He stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan Christmas 2002. President Bush came to visit the wounded in the hospital. He told Mike that when he could run a mile, that they would go on a run together. True to his word, he called Mike every month or so to see how he was doing. Well, last week they went on the run, 1 mile with the president. Not something you'll see in the news, but seeing the president taking the time to say thank you to the wounded and to give hope to one of my best friends was one of the greatest/best things I have seen in my life. It almost sounds like a corny email chain letter, but God bless him. Love,
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Comments: True. The photograph above was taken on the White House grounds on April 14, 2004 as President George W. Bush, fulfilling a promise he made a year-and-a-half earlier, jogged around the South Lawn in the pouring rain with Mike McNaughton, a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army who lost his leg in a land mine explosion in Afghanistan.
Bush first met McNaughton, who hails from Denham Springs, Louisiana, while visiting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in January 2003.
Sources and further reading:
G.W. Bush and Laura Bush Visit Army Staff Sergeant Michael McNaughton of Denham
White House news release (w/photo), 14 April 2004G.W. Bush Runs with U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Michael McNaughton
White House news release (w/photo), 14 April 2004Land Mine Victim Runs with the President
New Orleans Times Picayune, 15 April 2004
Last updated: 08/04/04
