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I met a sargeant after he gave a speech to one of my college classes. He had no fingers, thanks to the frostbite, and no legs below the knees, thanks to 2 mortars, and had a few bullet scars from where he was shot numerous times. One of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. Perhaps most incredibe is that he was laying in the middle of a frozen field when his brethen retrieved him and put him on the "dead" truck, and back at base they started to strip him and he coughed, so they put him outside the medical tent (not enough room inside) next to a guy who, a short while later, had his head explode when he shifted which caused the frozen blood on his head-wound to break open.
The inspirational part is this: The sargeant started drifting out of consiousness when he heard a voice yell "No, wait!" He woke up, looked around, and saw no one. Fast forward to the Navy hospital in Japan, he has a pretty nurse caring for him, and as he and a buddy are leaving to go to a party he'd invited her to, she called out for him to wait for her, yelling "No, wait!" -- the same voice he heard as he was about to die in Korea. She (the nurse) was with him as he told us the story, since they've been married ever since.