Army Capt. Luis Avila was severely wounded by an IED in Afghanistan in 2011, but even the loss of much of his voice doesn’t stop him from singing “God Bless America,” or prevent President Donald Trump from joining in.
Before we get to the scene, a few words about Capt. Avila. His is one of those amazing stories our military seems to produce with shocking regularity. Avila served four years in the enlisted ranks, before attending OCS and his swearing-in as a 2nd Lt. in 2004. In all, he served five combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A few years ago, I was privileged enough to attend one of Sheldon Adelson’s many Salute Our Troops events for wounded warriors in Las Vegas. Virtually every soldier/marine/airman I spoke with that weekend… well, their story always started off the same: “The day I got blown up…” Avila’s story is no different.
He was leading a search and rescue mission in Afghanistan near the Pakistan tribal regions eight years ago, when a 600-pound IED blew up directly under his vehicle. Three soldiers were killed, and by all rights, Avila probably should have been dead, too. Avail’s injuries cost him his left leg, put him in a coma for nearly six weeks, he suffered two strokes and two heart attacks, and oxygen deprivation left him mostly paralyzed. The Gary Sinise Foundation reports that “although the doctors felt he would not recover, his wife Claudia and three sons stayed by his side.” They’re together still at his specially-adapted smart home.
As I mentioned before, Avila also lost the use of much of his voice — but not his love of music, or his desire to sing. And that brings us to the present day, when Avila was invited to perform at a ceremony honoring incoming Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley. It was there that President Trump joined in on the second verse. Here’s the video. It comes with a three-hanky warning.
This is why we don’t want boots on the ground in these never-ending wars. Just blow as much up from the sky, and don’t risk our brave men and women.
The Nation can and does recognize compassion, sincerity and patriotism, President Trump delivers all with a YUGE believable heart.
I regularly see politicians talking out of both sides of their face, President Trump, never seen it.
I’m a harsh critic when it comes to fake patriotism.
AmericaFirst
Wonderful. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this.
What did Lebron James have to say about that?
He is and always will be my President –imperfect and swaggering New Yorker that he is – he is all American in the ways we need a president to be – especially in honoring those who have sacrificed (regardless of where/how/why for you critics out there) themselves for you and I and America.
Yet they want to impeach him because they know how much we care and resonate with this man…at least we can’t call him a New Yorker any longer.
Thank you Mr. Trump and thank yo to everyone who has voted for him in 2016 and will do so again! Keep the light of liberty alive in America.
I don’t seem to remember barky doing anything like this, I wonder why?
Oh that’s right the military was just there to get him around and hold an umbrella for him.
Trump has more humanity in his pinky than Trudeau has rammed up his ass at “The Parade”.
A very wealthy man who can easily identify with the common man vs and idiot who pretends to be every man.
You guys are lucky!
I know our President has an ego the size of Texas, I know he’s sometimes a little on the crude side, I know he’s far from perfect, yet underneath it all you could always see he did love his country and his fellow Americans and that he has a heart of gold. I knew it when I voted for him.
It’s sad that many people will never see this, because the media doesn’t want you to see this.
ON edit: I’m happy to see that since I first saw this on PJ Media it has went from under 6,000 views to over 10,000 views. I wish we could get it the most viewed youtube video.
God blessed America in ’16! I pray he does so again inn ’20!
I am proud of the President I voted for in ’16; and will proudly vote Don again in ’20!
Love how he belts out the anthem! And, thank you sir for your service and sacrifice.
Regardless of what the evil people say about President Trump, I see him as the all American Man with a big heart.
Now can someone please find the squeegee.
Trump is the president of the everyman. An old school New Yorker- an industrialist with a dream and one who achieved it.
The only man for the job as We stand as a Nation currently.
God appointed him for this time in history and I’m grateful for it.
You might not be planning anything, but the kikes have a plan for you.
The reason white people should be moving to small white towns in Montana and Idaho now is because whites will be safer from rampaging niggers when the US Ponzi economy crashes and the food stamps stop coming. Being located near a small community with similar people with similar pro-freedom viewpoints could help keep people moral, self-reliant, peaceful, and safe.
The bad side of white people being clustered in one place is that they can quickly be eliminated with nukes by the globalists.
The good sides of white people being scattered everywhere is that can they can hide and come out of the woodwork to launch lone wolf terror attacks when the concentration camps are opened.
The bad sides of white people being everywhere is that they will not have protection spread out all over from the Gestapo and roving gangs of mudshits.
Other options for Americans who want to survive the US collapse is to buy a sailboat or roam the world as nameless and stateless nomads or live in the Amazon.
Americans may be controlled by Jews, but patriots should still keep trying to wake people up so that they can be allies when the US Ponzi collapses.