Pundit Review Radio

Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match. This week Bruce told us the story of Captain Scott Smiley, "Within days of Smiley’s arrival at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, a civilian social worker encouraged his wife to fill out forms to medically retire him. “Instantly, this thing inside me was like ‘No, this isn’t right,’” Tiffany Smiley, now 25, recalled. “It was just this gut feeling.” Through weeks and months to come, as Scott Smiley’s body healed, as he learned how to walk with a cane and read Braille, he and his wife were told by doctors and therapists in Washington; Tacoma, Wash., and Palo Alto, Calif.: Your Army career is over. Smiley – earnest, outgoing, quick to poke fun at himself, devoutly religious – has proved them wrong. Taking advantage of the