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Amputee Veterans Stand Up to Mount Kilimanjaro and Win

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Amputee Veterans Stand Up to Mount Kilimanjaro and Win
Five years his Army vehicle ran over a buried explosive in Afghanistan, he and two other former soldiers, three men with one leg between them, came down from summiting 19,340-foot Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. You read correctly: Three soldiers, one leg. Mountain success. (READ the story in the Wash Post) From a […]

Five years his Army vehicle ran over a buried explosive in Afghanistan, he and two other former soldiers, three men with one leg between them, came down from summiting 19,340-foot Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. You read correctly: Three soldiers, one leg. Mountain success.

(READ the story in the Wash Post)

 

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