Tonight in the State of the Union speech, President Obama spoke about a brave American soldier who was injured during his 10th deployment.
NY Times: (from August 2013)
Three times, mainly by chance and in very different circumstances, Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg has met President Obama.
They were introduced near Omaha Beach in France in 2009, when Sergeant
Remsburg was part of a select Army Ranger group chosen to re-enact a
parachute drop for celebrations of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day
landings in World War II. The second meeting came less than a year later
at a military hospital outside Washington, where Mr. Obama was stunned
to see among the wounded troops from Afghanistan a familiar young man —
now brain-damaged, a track of fresh stitches across his skull, and
partly paralyzed.
The third time was two weeks ago in a private visit in Phoenix, where
Sergeant Remsburg did something that neither Mr. Obama nor military
doctors would once have predicted: he stood up and saluted his commander
in chief.....
We need to help our veterans get the medical and mental health care that they need.