I was 8yrs old when the Iranian hostage situation occurred, and the failed rescue attempt very much hit close to home. My father was an Army helicopter pilot so the crash and lost pilots kinda shook me - I had an understanding of loss as I knew about Vietnam but this was real and tangible and I knew boys like me were learning their fathers would not come home. Those injured Marines ended up at Brooke Army Medical Center, where my mother was the Chief Nurse of the world renowned burn unit. President Carter visited those Marines while at BAMC and shook my mother's hand, thanking her for her care of those men. I remember thinking how incredible it was that my mom had met the President of the United States. Unfortunately, she met President Reagan in a very similar situation a year or so later, although I can't recall the specifics (I want to say it also involved Marines, but it was a long time ago and I smoke a lot of weed).
President Carter was the very best of America, and we'd all be well served to effort living our lives in his manner.
This is kind of funny: