Obama's First Two Years: An Inside View
Pete Souza / White House
Aug. 8, 2010
"The President has made several trips to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and several other hospitals," Souza writes, "where he visits wounded soldiers and personally awards Purple Heart medals. Although I do take photographs of him meeting these soldiers, we make these pictures only available to the soldiers themselves. Here, he's about to enter the room of a wounded soldier who received a Purple Heart."
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