Posted on 02/25/2011 1:33:29 PM PST by panthermom
He is missing one eye, the roof of his mouth and can barely eat or drink - but America's 'most injured soldier' is going back to war-Actual Title
America’s most wounded soldier to return to combat is going back to the front line to serve his country once more.
Captain D.J. Skelton will take charge of 192 men from his previous unit and fight in the dangerous plains of Southern Afghanistan.
Friends said his achievement should have been physically impossible but he pushed through the pain because of his ‘warrior spirit’.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
He’s not going back for obama, you, me or the mission; He’s going back for his men.
That is why men fight. For each other.
Most who have never been, don’t, won’t and probably can’t understand.
regards;
Well, that's one way to intimate a certain quality of, shall we say, tremendous endurance...
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