“You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell!”
- William Tecumseh Sherman
U.S. President Barack Obama shakes the prosthetic hand of Medal of Honor award recipient U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class Leroy Petry after he introduced Obama to speak at the American Latino Heritage Forum in Washington, D.C., on October 12, 2011.
SFC Petry lost his right hand tossing away a grenade to save his fellow soldiers during combat in Afghanistan.”
(Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
“An Afghan man who sells carpets displays a handmade carpet bearing the image of U.S. President Barack Obama inside his shop, in Kabul, on October 12, 2011. The shop owner said that he spent a year sewing the carpet and it is not for sale.”
Below Obama’s portrait reads the following:
Obama the Best reproducer of securing of peace and stability at present in the world
