Let's learn from the stories out veterans have to share. Take former Army 1st Lt. Melissa Stockwell, the first American female soldier to lose a limb in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
When I said, 'thank you for your service' to retired combat veteran and former National Security Council official for two presidents Lt. Col. Jason Galui, head of the Veterans and Military Family Alliance at the George W. Bush Center, replied that it’s fine to thank a veteran for their service. But it’s even better to ask them for their story. 'I think there’s a lot that we can learn from our veterans. Really around the leadership.
' CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The former president also painted Staff Sergeant Spencer Milo , who not only sustained Post Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury in 2008 in Iraq when his gunner truck was attacked but went on to be misdiagnosed with cancer. In Afghanistan in 2011, he was there when a child suicide bomber blew up. Right after being thrown many feet by the blast, he ran back to drag a fellow member of his platoon to safety.
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