Getting Amputees A New Lease On Life

05/10/05 - 9:35 pm
Getting Amputees A New Lease On Life

Getting adjusted to life back home can be difficult for some of the service men and women returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

That's especially true for those who have lost a limb during the conflict.

But you're about see how medical technology, coupled with an unbridled desire to serve, is allowing many amputees to do something that was once considered impossible.

"I was hit with an RPG," Army Specialist Albert Ross said.

"One of the shrapnel cut my foot in half," Army E-5 Sergeant Moses Sonera said.

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Albert Ross
Moses Sonera
Robert Roeder