Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Local Hero and President Bush Honor World Series Champions St. Louis Cardinals


President Bush embraces Marine Lance Cpl. Chad Watson of Mt. Zion, Ill., who lost his lower right leg in Iraq, during a ceremony honoring the 2006 World Series Champions St. Louis Cardinals, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007 in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Bush, who presented Watson, a Cardinals fan, with a Purple Heart at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, made good on a promise to bring him to the White House for the East Room ceremony. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

I got home late tonight, and was pulling up my yahoo homepage when WHAM! I actually saw "President Bush" and "Mt. Zion, Illinois" in the same sentence!

Cpl. Watson, YOU ARE A HERO! Thank you for your service to our nation and for the cause of freedom.

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