A Wounded Soldier's Wish

[Bill Mattocks]

http://www.legion.org/troops/3763/wounded-soldiers-wish

A Wounded Soldier's Wish

Legion helps quadruple amputee defy the odds.

By Ken Olsen - December 3, 2009

Days after losing his limbs in an Easter Sunday roadside bomb attack, 22-year-old infantryman Brendan Marrocco told his medical team at Walter Reed Army Medical Center he had one goal: to walk under his own power by the time his combat infantry brigade returned from Iraq.
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Yet when the 2nd Battalion of the 27th Infantry Regiment came home to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Brendan was standing, walking and saluting his fellow soldiers.

 

[seasoned]

The human spirit has no boundaries. Once committed to a just cause, full well knowing what the outcome could bring, deserves my utmost respect and gratitude. The type of commitment needed physically and mentally to enter a battle field, is felt by few of us. This soldier is a hero in the truest sense of the word,

 

[Sukerkin]

One of those moments where you are moved to tears by the sheer power of a mans spirit to remain unbowed by what has been done to him. It makes me ashamed of how embittered and miserable I can allow myself to become about my working life.