Tammy Duckworth keeps it in perspective (also learning to fly again)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0611100134nov10,1,3297221.story?coll=chi-news-hed

On Sunday Tammy Duckworth will celebrate "Alive Day."

That's what she calls the anniversary of the day a rocket-propelled grenade tore through the helicopter she was co-piloting in Iraq--an attack that destroyed her legs and shattered her right arm, but spared her life.

She also plans to climb into the cockpit of a fixed-wing airplane this weekend, and begin learning to fly all over again--a return to what had been one of her favorite pursuits, before a whirlwind two years swept her from a Baghdad emergency room and into the international spotlight.

Her narrow loss to Republican Peter Roskam for the west suburban 6th Congressional District seat Tuesday has given her a chance to catch her breath, and to try to figure out what life will hold now that she is famous and, at least briefly, out of work.

In an interview Thursday, she said that her brush with death makes it easier to get over a political disappointment.

"I've always said that with what I've been through, nothing that could happen on a campaign trail will be as bad as what I've been through," she said, breaking out in laughter. "Losing a campaign is
no fun, but it's not like losing a limb. That's a lot more no fun."

Tammy Duckworth's loss was one of my few disappointments Tuesday. She deserved to be in the great freshman class we have going to Congress. I hope she continues in politics and there will be a future office for her. Dems need her. Good luck Tammy, and fly high!

And I hope she runs again we need people like that who gave almost all they had to give for our country.



October 17, 2006,Will be remembered as the Enabling day of the 21st Century!
"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures..."
~Adolf Hitler, March 23, 1933, before the German Parliament (Reichstag) as he urged them to pass his "Enabling Act"

Got Fascism Yet?


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Fascism Accomplished!

i hope she runs again .

so it has been just a year since she was attacked ? if so then that's a lot she went through in just a year.

campaign against her. It was sickening to see their damned ads lying to high hell about her.

... because of patriots like you...

I hope that she will be ready