Tommy Tuber ville didn't expect a weeklong goodwill trip through the Mid dle East to affect him like it did -- profoundly.
Tuberville discovered an un paralleled commitment by American soldiers, many barely out of their teens, and even those severely wounded in bat tle.
"It opened my eyes. I thought people went over there, dreaded going over there and couldn't wait to get back," ... "The leaders over there, this is their fourth or fifth or sixth..."The emotional peak for Tub erville came at a hospital when he and Weis approached a sol dier with severe injuries to both legs. Tuberville anticipated bit terness.
The soldier was anything but bitter...
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