{"id":673,"date":"2005-03-29T23:13:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T05:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=673"},"modified":"2005-03-29T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T05:17:18","slug":"amputees-begin-returning-to-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Amputees Begin Returning to Battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sit here, barely able to blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,151759,00.html\">overcome by awe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cpl. Jemel Daniels was a gunner on patrol with his unit in Iskandere, Iraq, when his Humvee hit a makeshift bomb on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I shot out of the turret 30 feet into the air and fell into a ditch on the side of the road. My friends dragged me across the road. Just two of us actually got out and three passed away,&#8221; the corporal said.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels works out hard without appearing to give much thought now to his injuries \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an amputated left leg, a battered arm and a shattered right foot now stabilized by painful steel pins running through it. None of his wounds have deterred his future plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m staying active duty,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read the rest.  Seriously.  Between tales of perserverence such as this and sacrifice such as that of <a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?p=670\">Sergeant First Class Paul Smith<\/a>, I can only shake my head at the valor of our troops, both on and off the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Does the service bring out the best in a person, or is it that our best are drawn to the service?  Perhaps a mixture of both, as honorable people see their fortitude strengthened by camaraderie and shared burden.  Either way, we are truly blessed as a society to have such heroes among us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit here, barely able to blog, overcome by awe. Cpl. Jemel Daniels was a gunner on patrol with his unit in Iskandere, Iraq, when his Humvee hit a makeshift bomb on the side of the road. &#8220;I shot out of the turret 30 feet into the air and fell into a ditch on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-military","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}