PEOPLE.....THAT STORY NEVER HAPPENED!!! IT IS A LIE! WHERE IS THE PROOF??? NICE PR.....URBAN LEGEND......The kind of PR people pull for BUSH.
Claim: President Bush prayed with an injured Special Forces soldier at Walter Reed Medical Center.
Status: Undetermined.
Origins: On 12 April 2003 the President and First Lady did pay a call upon injured servicemen being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center. Bush awarded ten Purple Hearts, the military's honor for those wounded in combat, and participated in ceremonies in which two injured soldiers — one from Mexico and the other from the Philippines — were naturalized as U.S. citizens. He also visited with a number of servicemen undergoing treatment in those two facilities, including Marine Sgt. Eric Alva of San Antonio and Navy Corpsman Brian Alaniz of Austin, both of whom lost their right legs in the conflict with Iraq. (Alva stepped out of a Humvee and onto a mine; Alaniz stepped on another mine while rushing to help Alva.)
Aides who accompanied the President on the tour of the two hospitals report that he distributed his thanks and pride — and a few jokes — in every room. But none of the press reports we've encountered so far makes mention of the President praying with any of these wounded men, although that would not have been out of character for him.