Stumpy's Blog

This blog is about my return to Walter Reed to get a new leg. I am an above-the-knee amputee. I lost my leg in April 2007 in Iraq while riding in a Humvee that was struck by an "explosively formed projectile" -- a molten metal jet stream released from a homemade roadside bomb. My left knee was shattered and later amputated at Walter Reed. I rushed through rehab to get back to Alaska quickly. But my leg continued to change, and now my prosthetic doesn't fit, and I need to begin again. I'll keep you posted on my progress and experience. This time, it will work.

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Where were you?

Eight years ago, I was in a tent in Fort Polk, LA. We were on an MRE (Mission Readiness Exercise) training for our upcoming deployment. It was as if the whole world stopped, they radioed everyone and shut down the box (training area). We were pretty ...isolated so we took out one of the FLIR (forward looking infared) monitors out of an Avenger that was attached to our company and we made a field expedient antenna. It is almost surreal, even now, eight years after the fact. Oh how quickly some forget. I was motivated to write this after bringing one of the more recently wounded soldiers back to Walter Reed. Out front of the hospital there were at least 100 peop...le with signs and American flags. Standing out there all day in the pouring rain to have a chance to thank a vet.

WTC-
2,349 Civilians
343 FDNY Firefighters
23 NYPD Officers
37 Port Authority Officers

Pentagon- 125 Civilian and Military Personnel

4 Airliners- 253 Passengers and Crew

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