High-tech rehab, old-fashioned fortitude

High-tech rehab, old-fashioned fortitude
By Leo Shane III, Stars and StripesPacific edition, Sunday, December 2, 2007

See more photos from the Center for the Intrepid here.
WASHINGTON — Since he got his new prosthetic leg, Staff Sgt. William Corp doesn’t spend as much time on the climbing wall.
Not that he has trouble with the 30-foot tower: He can still do it in under two minutes. But the new leg fits better in his kayak, so he’s been spending more time swimming laps and in the wave pool, honing his skills there.

William Corp
John Jones

WOUNDED VETS SOLDIER ON

WOUNDED VETS SOLDIER ON
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 09/9/07
BY KELLY-JANE COTTERSTAFF WRITER Post Comment

ABOUT 90 PERCENT of the soldiers wounded in the war in Iraq survive their injuries.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that a new generation of veterans must learn to survive with extraordinary injuries — brain damage, multiple amputations, blindness and post-traumatic stress disorder so severe it almost seems visible, like a sizzling cloud of pain.
Wounded soldiers, and the medical professionals who treat them, speak of the day they were attacked as their "Alive Day," the day they nearly died. It makes for a macabre anniversary.

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