Memorial Day ceremony with bush*...

[ret5hd]

I am looking for verification or refutation of this story (i was out of the loop this weekend)...

I am friends with a couple that attended a memorial day ceremony that bush* attended. according to a mutual friend, they related this story:

at this ceremony, on the stage, was our nations oldest veteran, in a wheelchair. bush* came on the stage, gladhanding everybody, and gave said veteran a hearty backslap, causing the frail man to fall from his wheelchair and crack a hip. also, according to my 3rd hand hearing of the story, my friends were on the return flight with this veteran, who told them that the bush* people had told him they would provide ANY help he needed, hospitalization, etc, and he replied "I don't need any more of YOUR help!"

any truth to this story?

[stopthegop]

1. seems it would have been reported...filmed...

there's always at least one camera on any President when he's in public, since the Kennedy assasination

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. This is like the left wing version of a Clinton story

it sounds pretty far fetched but is still red meat for Bush haters.

[ewagner]

3. The only thing I know

for sure is that Bush was standing too close to the microphone after he finished his address. He had a brief conversation with Rummy, which I couldn't hear clearly, but I did clearly hear him ask the MC , "Do I sit down now?" Thought it was funny that he had to ask for stage directions.

Didn't see him address a vet though.

[dflprincess]

4. I doubt that an elderly person

who had just cracked their hip would be up to flying (I doubt that a younger person would be up to it).

Sounds like something Bush would do - except he probably wouldn't offer any help.

[ret5hd]

5. thanks all...

too good to be true, i guess (lucky for the vet)