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Heartwarming Photo of Wife Carrying Double-Amputee Marine Husband Goes Viral
ABC News ^ | 08/27/13 | Robin Weil

Posted on 08/27/2013 2:03:16 PM PDT by austinaero

"Jesse, 28, lost both of his legs in Afghanistan in 2009 after stepping on an IED, which was all caught on video by a fellow marine wearing a helmet camera."

The footage was even used in a documentary about Jesse called "Coming Home."

"If I hadn't stepped on that IED I wouldn't have met her," Jesse told ABC News. "I wouldn't take it back ever."

(Excerpt) Read more at gma.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: amputee; love; marine; wife
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To: austinaero

What say we STOP sending our folks to fight other peoples’ wars, secular, tribal, religious wars they’ll resume the moment we remove our double amputee vets from their shithole of a country.

IT’S GOTTA STOP!!!


21 posted on 08/27/2013 4:15:00 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”- Voltaire)
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To: austinaero

LOVE STORY ... a story in pictures you won’t forget easily.

http://geemail.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/a-love-story-in-pictures-you-wont-soon-forget/


22 posted on 08/27/2013 4:18:01 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: austinaero

She’s a keeper.


23 posted on 08/27/2013 4:24:24 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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Too bad this story isn’t getting as much ink and airtime as that tramp Miley Virus skanking around on stage at some narcissistic awards show.


24 posted on 08/27/2013 4:39:17 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Ask the MSM about Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. Observe the subsequent blank stares.)
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He ain’t heavy, he’s my hubby!!! :)


25 posted on 08/27/2013 5:01:39 PM PDT by Kolath
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To: Osage Orange

Not only my screen got blurry but for some reason I’m shaking.

I don’t want our men or women to suffer like that for crap wars with their hands tied.

To hell with the fake bs enemy combatant “CIC”.


26 posted on 08/27/2013 5:16:37 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

I hear you!


27 posted on 08/28/2013 1:39:45 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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