Tiffany Smiley, 40, is a former nurse whose life was forever altered in 2005, when her husband and high school sweetheart, Scotty, was severely wounded by a suicide bomber while on an Army deployment to Iraq.
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hey, ainsley, good to be here. ainsley: how did you get the invitation to go to the white house. i have been talk with ike who is an amazing advocate in the healthcare field in the civilian healthcare field. is he ready to help president trump bring quality access to care toll our veterans. and he mr. pulmentor was able to pull together some of the top doctors and administrators around our country to come together and discuss how we can provide access of care and quality care to all of our veterans. ainsley: so tell us what happened to your husband in 2ebg 5. yeah. so in 2005, scotty was blinded by suicide car bomb. he woke up in walter reed unible to seat rest of his life. he has never seen his children. our family has carried that sacrifice. we have had long, hard days. days where the system that was supposed to be there to care for us was making our life harder.
that we re having a joint retreat. we are doing the hard work of collaborating, coordinating, putting our ideas into motion whether it s on healthcare, tax reform, or reining in top-down government. i believe it is important we hold these retreats because at the end of the day it does come down to teamwork and few people know this better than former army major scotty smiley. he is a hometown hero from eastern washington and i m proud to say he will be joining us at the retreat this year. he was blinded by a suicide bomber in iraq. and when i learned about his story, i thought you know, we need to have him come to the retreat and help inspire us as we head to philadelphia. even through his tragedy and life-changing story, he is making a huge impact on this world. i think about his determination, his vision of service before self. and it is something we all need to hear and we need to get to