Friends say injured soldier is improving after leg amputated

Friends say injured soldier is improving after leg amputated

Associated Press


MINOT, N.D. - An Army captain who was seriously injured in Iraq last week is improving after his right leg was amputated, a family friend says.

Capt. Daniel Gade, 29, underwent surgery Monday at a military hospital in Washington, D.C., said Julie Smesrud, principal of Our Redeemer's Christian School in Minot.

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A Web site for Capt. Daniel MacArthur Gade is at (www.caring-bridge.org/dc/danielgade), Smesrud said. People can sign a guest book there and send a message to him and his family, she said.