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WASHINGTON, July 16, 2009 – When Army Staff Sgt. John Bennett got shot by a sniper in Iraq in February 2005, his dreams of competition crumbled along with three vertebrae. Steve McGuire, a now-retired Navy petty officer second class disabled by a motorcycle accident after returning from an Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment, said the National Veterans Wheelchair Games give him an opportunity to share with and learn from other disabled veterans. Photo courtesy of VA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Looking back over that day in Hawijah, Iraq, the Montana Army National Guardsman feared he’d lost far more than...