The shot was a lucky hit for the enemy. It shattered C.’s femur, severed nerves and cut veins. One piece of luck for C. was that the round, as it mushroomed and tore through his leg, didn’t sever his femoral artery. Still, it was bleeding heavily. “I couldn’t put a tourniquet on myself because every time I tried to apply it, it moved my leg and the femur would twist, and I’d scream,” he remembers. “So I traded the tourniquet for not screaming. I lay there and sobbed until two of my guys came over. These are guys, by the way, who had to finish the immediate gunfight they were in, and then cover open ground, in a firefight, to get to me. Epic.” One of the guys took a tourniquet off his equipment and put it on C. Every twist of the tourniquet further mashed his femur, and drove its broken shards into other nooks of his flesh and nerves. He was writhing. He quickly started bleeding through his bandages. So the guys called in the helos and started moving C. to the LZ for extraction.
He’ll come out as gay and everything will be fine.
Target and General Mills will sponsor the cancelled hometown parade.
He’ll jump Ellen’s couch and be on Dancing with the Stars.
After that he’ll run for US Senator for Massachusetts and win after tossing his medals over the White House fence.
Keith Ellison will swear him in on a koran.