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America has been involved in far more military actions and conflicts than any one person alive today has ever witnessed.
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There are a number of veterans who have experienced combat situations during which their comrades have died around them, yet they have survived. Encounters with fellow veterans who find themselves in a position where they have lived through combat and their fellow soldiers have not has taught me not only image of armed forces membersto view their situation with compassion, but my own.
Cpl. Matthew Bradford was injured while on duty in Iraq. A roadside bomb exploded underneath him, and as a result of his injuries he is now a double amputee and has lost his eyesight. He spent several years at the Center for the Intrepid, a privately-funded and cutting-edge rehabilitation center where he learned how to walk again using prosthetic legs. Mathew also learned how to navigate without his vision.
America has been involved in far more military actions and conflicts than any one person alive today has ever witnessed. From every single one of these involvements, soldiers have come home; sometimes wounded, sometimes with disabilities. Others have not even made it to the site of the military actions or conflicts, having been wounded or disabled during training. Citizens of this nation – family members, friends, and those who love us, have been there for veterans along the way.
There was a time in America when troops were segregated by the melatonin count in their skin. I saved the life of a Master Sergeant who was retired. He had a stroke, and I had stopped in to check on him as I usually did; he was getting older. I had a cup of coffee in my hand, and when I came through the door he was still in bed, something very unusual for this career military man who was usually up and at 'em at 4:00AM like clockwork. He said, 'Did you get something to eat?' I walked out into the kitchen, put my cup of coffee down, and walked back into the bedroom. He looked at me and said, 'Oh good, you got something to eat.' I promptly called 911.