BEDSIDE 'BANTER': Marine who survived Kabul, Afghanistan bombing details awkward meeting with Joe Biden after losing limbs and watching 'his friends die.' Watch the emotional interview:
A Marine shares his story of President Biden visiting him in the hospital after he was injured while serving in Afghanistan.
Vargas-Andrews said he was asked by the generals who visited him in the hospital whether he wanted to meet the president so he could be thanked for his service. Hesitant and still sedated from the medication he was taking, he welcomed the idea. Vargas-Andrews said he was told that the president would be at the hospital to meet him in"about an hour."
Upon learning from his mother that the president was Biden, Vargas-Andrews said he leaned back and said,"Oh my f---ing God." "He says, ‘Oh,’ and kind of stands up and then goes over to reach for my fingers … and just like grabs my fingers. Doesn't greet me or anything, just grabbed my fingers. I was like, 'OK, that's weird.'"
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