re: #2 nines09

“Wow. It’s real.” Now go visit a VA hospital and see more “real”. Dipshit.

She did, just before she went to Afghanistan. From the first link:

Before traveling to Afghanistan, Brewer made a stop in Washington. She met with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and visited Army combat medic Mason Steill of Chandler at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Steill’s grandmother is a friend of the governor. The 22-year-old medic was wounded in Afghanistan in June.

“What a price they have paid. What a price America has paid,” Brewer said.

From the second link:

Before going overseas, Brewer stopped at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where she found the reality of the situation also differed from her prior perception.

“That is, in so many ways, so heartbreaking because so many are injured dramatically, something that we hear about, only might see on TV,” she said.

“But to be there and to talk to them and to see their spirit is so, so encouraging that they are willing to give up what they have given up,” Brewer continued. “And then to come back and be strong and be faithful still to us.”

Brewer said she was impressed by the kind of equipment available to treat and rehabilitate the injured soldiers.

She even got a chance to spend some time with Army combat medic Mason Steill, the grandson of a Maricopa County employee, who was wounded in Afghanistan. All that, Brewer said, left an impression.

“You know, what a price they have paid, what a price America has paid,” she said. “We have suffered great casualties and great injuries and must never, ever … forget it.”

She met with the grandson of a friend. Again, reality came as a shock, “something that we hear about, only might see on TV”.