Post by subdjoe on Aug 26, 2010 10:51:09 GMT -5
He still cares.
No announcement, no self promotion, just doing the right thing.
The former community organizer should take lessons.
Here is a slide show with some of the photos.
Can you imagine the guy now in the White House getting out among common people like that? Much less letting his emotions show.
Three-year event participant Nancy Lee Kelley said meeting the former president was "a dream come true."
Kelley, a resident of Old Orchard Beach and mother of Army Capt. Christopher Cash, who died in Iraq on June 24, 2004, said this wasn't the first time she had met Bush.
She first met the former president in a schoolhouse in Kennebunkport in August 2006, when he had agreed to meet with five Maine families who lost their children in the war on terror.
Kelley said she was in disbelief when Bush on late Sunday afternoon recalled the exact date and location of the moment they had first met.
"August 2006, Kennebunkport," Bush told her matter-of-factly when he shook her hand, Kelley said.
After Kelley asked him with a mixture of shock and disbelief if he really remembered her, she said he replied, "Yep. I never forget."
Ogunquit resident John Mixon, director and coordinator of the event, said Bush actually changed his vacation plans in Maine in order to attend the run.
Bush's only request, according to Kelley, was to makes sure news organizations were not in attendance.
"It's not a photo op for him," Kelley said. "He does it from the heart."
Kelley, a resident of Old Orchard Beach and mother of Army Capt. Christopher Cash, who died in Iraq on June 24, 2004, said this wasn't the first time she had met Bush.
She first met the former president in a schoolhouse in Kennebunkport in August 2006, when he had agreed to meet with five Maine families who lost their children in the war on terror.
Kelley said she was in disbelief when Bush on late Sunday afternoon recalled the exact date and location of the moment they had first met.
"August 2006, Kennebunkport," Bush told her matter-of-factly when he shook her hand, Kelley said.
After Kelley asked him with a mixture of shock and disbelief if he really remembered her, she said he replied, "Yep. I never forget."
Ogunquit resident John Mixon, director and coordinator of the event, said Bush actually changed his vacation plans in Maine in order to attend the run.
Bush's only request, according to Kelley, was to makes sure news organizations were not in attendance.
"It's not a photo op for him," Kelley said. "He does it from the heart."
No announcement, no self promotion, just doing the right thing.
The former community organizer should take lessons.
Here is a slide show with some of the photos.
Can you imagine the guy now in the White House getting out among common people like that? Much less letting his emotions show.
