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Obama Calls for ‘Dignity and Respect’ for ‘Heroes’ Returning from Front Lines of Ebola Fight

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032513 PresidentObama?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1414635038565Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) — In the wake of controversy regarding multiple states enacting mandatory quarantines for medical personnel returning from West Africa, President Obama on Wednesday demanded that the “heroes” fighting Ebola on the front lines receive “dignity and respect.”

“We need to call them what they are: American heroes,” Obama said. “They deserve our gratitude. And they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.” He stood by his previous statements that the best way to fight the Ebola situation is to do so at the source, in West Africa.

“When I hear people talking about American leadership and then are promoting policies that would avoid leadership and have us running in the opposite direction…hiding under the covers…it makes me a little frustrated,” the commander-in-chief admitted.

“All of them have signed up to leave their homes and their loved ones to head straight into the heart of the Ebola epidemic,” Obama said, adding that “they make huge sacrifices to protect this country that we love and when they come home, they deserve to be treated properly…they deserve to be treated like the heroes that they are.”


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