The Face Of Courage

Robert Samuel struggles to regain his strength at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after an IED in Afghanistan blew his left leg off. Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT

Soldier Badly Wounded In Afghanistan Wants To Return To Duty - -McClatchy News

WASHINGTON — Army Sgt. Robert Samuel knew that he'd lost much of his leg almost as soon as the improvised explosive device went off beneath his Stryker armored vehicle. Bloodied and dazed, he asked his buddies to grab what was left of him as they yanked him out of the wrecked vehicle.

One just shook his head.

"The medic said he didn't think I'd make it," Samuel, 29, a soft-spoken Miami native, said of the injuries he sustained during the attack in November in the desert outside Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. "He figured I'd lost too much blood."

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My Comment: These stories always humble me .... puts everything into the proper perspective.