Tough loss brings out the best in marathoner (11/05/04)

Tough loss brings out the best in marathoner
Friday, November 05, 2004
BY M.A. MEHTA
Star-Ledger Staff
He never drifted into depression. Even as Jose Ramos caught his reflection in the mirror, staring at the stitches in his shattered left arm for the first time, he never dropped his eyes to the floor.

There was something different about this young man. Jennifer Koblinski sensed it the first time she walked into the hospital room, hearing Ramos' plea for Taco Bell. Katie Yancosek saw it the first time this 24-year-old wounded veteran of the war in Iraq bounded into her occupational therapy office at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.


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