MITCH ALBOM: What it truly means to stand up

MITCH ALBOM: What it truly means to stand up
December 24, 2006
BY MITCH ALBOM
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
The last time Robbie Doughty saw his legs, he was riding in a Humvee on a lonely road in Iraq. There had been problems in that area before, and his unit was on the lookout for problems now. Sometimes you get lucky and can spot something suspicious. An old tire. An animal carcass. Anything that could hide a bomb.
"But we didn't see anything," Doughty says now. "It just kind of happened."