July 4, 2010, was a bad day for Tyler Southern. He dreamed he was with his older brothers, playing sandlot football, running and laughing, horsing around just like they used to when they were together as kids in Jacksonville, Fla.
In his dream, he was whole again.
Then he awoke in his hospital bed at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and reality came flooding back. Both of his legs and his right arm were gone, blown off in Afghanistan two months earlier by an improvised explosive device so powerful that only bits of his legs and boots were ever found. The explosion left one remaining limb, his left arm, broken and mangled.
Continue reading his inspiring full story here.
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outfit knew young people would die and
be mutlilated by their insistance on a
war based on lies and decit yet they
proceeded despite a Worldwide outcry.
This young man will be mutiliated for life
yet Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and the rest
of those pathetic monsters are living a
luxurious retirment at taxpayer expense.
How do they sleep at night?
us out.
*salute*