Wounded in Iraq, soldier starts over - includes Video (6/2/04)

Wounded in Iraq, soldier starts over
After devastating injuries, Sgt. Peter Damon rebuilds body, life
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By Brian Williams
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:34 p.m. ET June 2, 2004


He can't hold hands with his father anymore. Two-year-old Danny Damon is just now realizing that. But Danny did get his father back from Iraq.

Sgt. Peter Damon is on one of his rare visits home to Brockton, Mass., between fittings for a set of new arms at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where we first met him months ago: heavily medicated, and a different man.

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