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So I got to meet someone pretty high ranking today

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USArmyParatrooper

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President Obama payed a visit to Fort Bragg today to speak with us about the end of the Iraq war and to thank to the troops for their service. I got to shake hands with him and his Mrs. Obama, who behind the scenes does a ton of work with military families. She was classy as always.

 

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I managed to snap 3 really good pictures of the President, here's one of them. I was THIS close to picking up a Spider-man Obama variant for him to sign. But then I thought there's no way I can get that lucky. As it turns out I would have been able to get the ultimate signature! I was positioned right near the rail and he was signing autographs. :(

 

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Regardless of personal politics, I think it's cool to meet or see in person any President of the United States. That's awesome!

 

+1. I don't think he is doing a bang up job, but I respect him because he is our President, and it is cool as hell to see him in person.

 

President Bush spoke at my commencement in 1992, but I was never within 200 yards of him.

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Regardless of personal politics, I think it's cool to meet or see in person any President of the United States. That's awesome!

 

+1. I don't think he is doing a bang up job, but I respect him because he is our President, and it is cool as hell to see him in person.

 

President Bush spoke at my commencement in 1992, but I was never within 200 yards of him.

 

Did he do the Yale joke?

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Regardless of personal politics, I think it's cool to meet or see in person any President of the United States. That's awesome!

 

+1. I don't think he is doing a bang up job, but I respect him because he is our President, and it is cool as hell to see him in person.

 

President Bush spoke at my commencement in 1992, but I was never within 200 yards of him.

 

Did he do the Yale joke?

 

I couldn't tell you a single word he said. I could barely stand from the night before.

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Regardless of personal politics, I think it's cool to meet or see in person any President of the United States. That's awesome!

 

+1. I don't think he is doing a bang up job, but I respect him because he is our President, and it is cool as hell to see him in person.

 

President Bush spoke at my commencement in 1992, but I was never within 200 yards of him.

 

I wasn't a fan whatsoever of GWB, but I got to see him thanks to my boss getting on a VIP list. And it was cool to see him in person (I was about 40 feet away from him) just because he's the leader of the free world. I can't imagine being as close as USArmyParatrooper, let alone having a picture with him. That's wicked.

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I most likely saw you on CNN today since you were so close to him.

 

My mother was watching and says she saw me s bunch of times.

 

She must be proud. I liked the part when he talked about the troups being a hero. The reply he received was something like this (badly paraphrasing), I am no hero I am a Paratrooper.

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Regardless of personal politics, I think it's cool to meet or see in person any President of the United States. That's awesome!

 

+1. I don't think he is doing a bang up job, but I respect him because he is our President, and it is cool as hell to see him in person.

 

President Bush spoke at my commencement in 1992, but I was never within 200 yards of him.

 

Yeah. Congrats on meeting the Pres. That would have been cool to see.

 

 

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I most likely saw you on CNN today since you were so close to him.

 

My mother was watching and says she saw me s bunch of times.

 

She must be proud. I liked the part when he talked about the troups being a hero. The reply he received was something like this (badly paraphrasing), I am no hero I am a Paratrooper.

 

The quote was "I'm not a hero. A hero is a sandwich, I'm at paratrooper."

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