{"id":52306,"date":"2019-05-06T04:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/06\/after-losing-her-legs-in-iraq-senator-hopes-to-take-her-daughters-there-one-day\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:58:23","slug":"after-losing-her-legs-in-iraq-senator-hopes-to-take-her-daughters-there-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/veterans\/2019\/05\/06\/after-losing-her-legs-in-iraq-senator-hopes-to-take-her-daughters-there-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"After losing her legs in Iraq, senator hopes to take her daughters there one day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caucus.militarytimes.com\/speaker\/tammy-duckworth\/\" target=_blank>Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth<\/a>, who lost both her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/04\/21\/us-service-member-dies-in-iraq\/\" target=_blank>Iraq<\/a> in 2004, visited the country late last month for the first time since her injury as part of a congressional visit touring the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She sat down with defense reporters last week to discuss what the return trip was like, and what she told Iraqi leaders about her hopes for the country where she nearly died:<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/03\/15\/this-iraq-vet-turned-democratic-senator-wants-her-party-to-pay-more-attention-to-national-security\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/C-better-duckworth.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">This Iraq vet turned Democratic senator wants her party to pay more attention to national security<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cWe need a platform that balances investing in our weaponry with investing in our citizenry, investing in our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI had a lot of anger the first few weeks after I was injured. After I woke up in the hospital, I wanted to go out and find that bastard that shot me down, hunt him down and kill him. I moved off of that years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just wanted what I did to not have been in vain \u2026 See, I didn\u2019t believe in the war in the beginning, at all. I didn\u2019t think we should have been there. I still don\u2019t think we should have been there. I wanted to go after al-Qaida in Afghanistan, and I felt we didn\u2019t belong in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut I truly love and believe in the Constitution, and I truly believe that the military is subservient to the civilian (authorities). That is why our democracy is so great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo when my commander in chief \u2026 issued that order, I wanted to go. At that point, I had been in the Army for 12 years. I had been in the National Guard for 12 years. I had been collecting a paycheck, doing all of that training. It was time. It was my turn to go, to prove to the American people that investment in me, the $200,000-plus spent to train me as a pilot, the paychecks that I cashed were worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo I was proud to go. I had just left command. These were my guys. There was no way in hell I was going to stay stateside and wave goodbye. So I volunteered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose were all my reasons for going, which was enough for the injuries I sustained. That said, after I woke up in the hospital, one day Paul Wolfowitz came in and showed me pictures of the Iraqi people voting for the first time with the ink on their fingers. I had an emotional reaction. I cried. I was so happy they had that free election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat I said to the Iraqi president when I sat down with him (on this trip) was that Iraqis spilled blood to save Baghdad from ISIS, and Iraqis have fought for this country. But remember that I spilled my blood here, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd my commitment to you and to Iraq, what I want is for you to become a successful, strong independent nation, not beholden to anyone, whether that\u2019s the U.S. or Russia or Iran or anyone else. That version of Iraq is the best ally the United States in the region. Not a little brother. I want an Iraq that is economically strong, a voice in the Middle East. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was interesting to be back. I told the Iraqi leadership that one of my heroes was John McCain, has always been. If John McCain could go back to Vietnam after what he endured, and lead the engagement and opening of Vietnam \u2026 He did it for the benefit of the United States with a desire to improve relations with Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd now there are veterans going on vacation in Vietnam, some of them in places they served, many of them bring their kids and grandkids. What I said to the Iraqi leadership is that someday I would like to bring my girls here on vacation. That\u2019s the vision and hope I have for Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Took this photo in Iraq last week: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenDuckworth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenDuckworth<\/a> looking down as the helicopter taking us to Taji circled the spot where she was shot down 15 years ago while piloting her Blackhawk. 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