02-02-2006, 07:59 PM
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Pissing in the cornflakes
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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Tweeeeet!
Flag on the play.
Who is going back to war...missing limbs? They may believe in the war. Hell, I'll even go so far as to say that they received excellent care from the VA (wouldn't happen in Omaha, but I'll bite). But noone, that is missing a limb(s), is going back to war. If they are, then our military is stretched far thinner than I ever imagined.
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Upon further review the ruling on the field is overturned.
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Amputee Wounded in Iraq to Return to Active Duty
Morning Edition, March 4, 2005 · Capt. David Rozelle of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment will soon become the Army's first amputee from a wound suffered in Iraq to return to active duty.
In the past, it's been rare for soldiers who underwent amputations to go back to war, but better prosthetic arms and legs are now allowing wounded soldiers to do more.
At Fort Carson in Colorado, Rozelle said he knows he's returning both as a fighter and as a role model -- for the soldiers under his command and for other troops with amputations.
"I'm breaking the ice for them," Rozelle says. "I don't want to be an anomaly. I want to be the first to go back. But I don't want to be the last."
Rozelle was injured in June 2003, when an anti-tank mine destroyed part of his right foot and leg. He recounts the experience in a new memoir, Back in Action: An American Soldier's Story of Courage, Faith, and Fortitude. The book's first chapter is excerpted below.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4522136
Link for the full story.
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