War injury inspires vet to help others

War injury inspires vet to help others
By RON MARTZ
Cox News Service
Monday, May 23, 2005


ATLANTA — After Army 1st Lt. Melissa Stockwell lost most of her left leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq last year, she decided the best way to deal with her injury was to help others deal with theirs.

Now medically retired from the Army, Stockwell is on her way to school in Minnesota to become a prosthetist, a job in which she will help recent amputees get a properly fitted prosthesis.

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