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  • Purple Heart vet takes first steps in 27 years

    05/28/2010 2:13:48 AM PDT · by grame · 2 replies · 471+ views
    KHOU.com Houston ^ | May 25, 2010 | Jeremy Desel
    Updated Wednesday, May 26 at 1:15 PM HOUSTON -- A Houston veteran who has been in a wheelchair since 1983, took his first steps in 27 years Tuesday night. "No easy steps. Only hard steps," Harry Shaw said of his life after the Grenada invasion. It is a conflict most have forgotten, but it changed Shaw's life forever. “I was the most serious out of all of the injured in Grenada," Shaw said. He lost both legs. Shaw accepted his fate of life in a wheelchair with courage and grace. "I'm a paratrooper. That's just the way I am. The...