Wounded Soldiers Are Finding New Ways To Serve

Badly Wounded Marine Finds a New Way To Serve -- McClatchy News

WASHINGTON — Kurtis Foster knows the cost of wartime service.

"I was wounded a total of five times," Foster said, "but I only got three Purple Hearts."

Count the causes like a cadence: Grenade. Land mine. Homemade bomb.

First, the Oakhurst, Calif., resident took shrapnel to the neck. Then he got tossed from a truck when he and his fellow Marines drove over the land mine. Then, on Foster's third tour of Iraq, in 2007, an improvised explosive device concussed the bejesus out of him.

Foster recalls vomiting a lot. Other than that, his final combat injury is mostly a blur.

"I remember little things," Foster said, "but it's like little clips."

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My Comment: I suspect that he will excel in this new position.