*TRUE GRIT KEEPS AMPUTEES ON THE RUN IN ARMY TEN-MILER (10/26/04)

TRUE GRIT KEEPS AMPUTEES ON THE RUN IN ARMY TEN-MILER
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26 October 2004
US Fed News
English
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Army issued the following press release:

They didn't take home any top awards in the Army Ten-Miler, but the performances of service members who lost limbs in Afghanistan and Iraq was, to many, nothing short of heroic.

Army Capt. David Rozelle, who lost part of his right leg below the knee in a June 2003 land mine explosion in Hit, Iraq, spearheaded the effort to put together a team of amputees from Walter Reed Army Medical Center for the Oct. 24 race, a kickoff to the annual Association of the United States Army meeting.

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