Capt. Luis Avila sings “God Bless America”

The Blog 100 Percent Fed Up has the report and the video (above):

President Trump spoke at a ceremony to congratulate Gen. Mark Milley on becoming the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then gave a huge bear hug to a wounded veteran.

Retired Army Capt. Luis Avila, who was severely wounded by a bomb in 2011 in Afghanistan, was warmly embraced by the president after the hero sang “God Bless America.”

The name Capt. Luis Avila was familiar to me. Cleveland Tea Party blogged on this veteran in July 2017:

Captain Avila served several tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq and lost his leg in an IED attack. This man was not expected to survive. He remains largely paralyzed, he is in a wheelchair, but just watch this short video. He can barely move his body, and yet he struggles mightily to salute, to literally salute, his Commander-in-Chief, President Trump (at about 1:40) and to bow in acknowledgement. It brought tears to my eyes. He is one of many Americans who knows that we have a CiC who loves our country and honors our veterans who defend our way of life.

There is another reason why I am posting this: the YouTube video of this man saluting his CIC now displays this message:

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I don't know the reason, but I don't like it. 

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