Sports help rebuild wounded GIs

Sports help rebuild wounded GIs
There's no languishing for some torn apart in Iraq. Their orders: Be what you were.

By Johanna Neuman
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Published January 20, 2006


WASHINGTON -- Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Gubler was on foot patrol in Ramadi, Iraq, when he noticed the rusty truck hood on top of a mound of dirt beside the road. Seconds later, the mound exploded, and the 37-year-old National Guardsman fell to the ground, blinded and with his left arm severed. Now, less than two months later, instead of languishing he's preparing for a hunting trip in February.

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