Unlike the pols who put their partisan spin on President Obama’s State of the Union address, Sgt. Helman Roman said he was thrilled to hear the speech in person.
“It was a once in a lifetime experience,” Roman said late Wednesday, as he was on his way back to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, where he is being treated for wounds he suffered in Afghanistan.
Roman attended the speech as a guest of U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, a Democrat from the 2nd District. Prior to the speech, Roman and his wife Johanna and their two children, Angelica and Louis, had dinner with Courtney and several of his staffers. Then, while he watched the speech in the House chamber, his family watched on television from U.S. Rep. John Larson’s office.
Roman said the atmosphere during the speech was “electrifying.”
What did Roman think of the substance of Obama’s address? He says he liked the emphasis on the economy — “he mentioned our priority is to get our economy going, that were not a second place nation and we got to get back on track.”