PAUL MORSE/COURTESY OF THE BUSH CENTER
BUSH
AT PEACE
different challenges and asks visitors to make their own decisions.
He seems to mean it, however,
when he says that people will
reach their own conclusions and
that he doesn’t mind if they still
disagree with him.
Bush still searched for a few
more words when it came to the
individual men and women who
had suffered often gruesome injuries in the two wars.
“You know, I don’t feel sorry
for them, because they don’t feel
sorry for themselves,” he said.
HUFFINGTON
06.16.13
OUT ON THE MOUNTAIN bike
trail, I found myself behind Dan
Gade, a 38-year-old Army major
who lost his right leg up to the hip
when he was hit by an improvised
explosive device in Ramadi, Iraq,
on Jan. 10, 2005.
As the riders ahead of us got
tangled on an uphill section,
bringing the peloton to a halt,
Gade grumbled about stopping
on an incline. He didn’t complain
often, but for someone riding with
one leg, getting held up on a climb
was a challenge. The group ahead
moved on, and soon Gade scooted
off ahead of me, bouncing up and
over bumps and ridges and around
Army Sgt.
First Class
Billy Costello,
31, rides
along a
mountain
bike trail on
Bush’s ranch.
Costello lost
his right leg
above the
knee when
he stepped
on an IED in
Afghanistan
in 2011.