Above and beyond
Posted By Russ Emerson on June 30, 2008 at 9:51 pm
In the past I had, from time to time, harbored the hope that I might someday return to the Army, despite the back problem that ended my career. Now, of course, I’m too old and thoroughly broken to get back in.
Here’s an amazing story of a soldier who refuses to quit, despite horrific injury: Blind Special Forces soldier: determined to serve.
“I am going to push the limits,” the 40-year-old said. “I don’t want to go to Fort Bragg and show up and sit in an office. I want to work every day and have a mission.”
Which raises once again the question: where do we get such men?
I don’t know, but I thank God that we do get them.
Any time in the future that I’m tempted to think, because of my disability, how hard it is to do whatever I’m doing, I hope I’ll remember Captain Ivan Castro.
(via Hot Air headlines.)
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