`Ain't Done Yet': With Gritty Determination, Amputees Return to Active Duty (10/10/03)

`Ain't Done Yet': With Gritty Determination, Amputees Return to Active Duty
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BY DAVID WOOD
c.2003 Newhouse News Service

Garth Stewart lost his foot in Iraq, in a mine blast that showered his blood and flesh on his buddy and left Stewart writhing and smoking and screaming on the road.

Andrew McCaffrey's right hand was blown off by a grenade in Afghanistan. A Special Forces medic tackled him and knelt on his stump to stanch the bleeding as they waited for the medevac helicopter.


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