Brendan

This is coolbert:

Here is a modern day "Johnny". A badly wounded soldier, minus all limbs [his face intact], BUT still possessing a strong will to live and THRIVE!!

Brendan Marrocco.

Surviving a roadside bomb, losing both legs and arms, but with spirit still intact.

Even is now engaged to be married!!

"Spirit Intact, Soldier Reclaims His Life"

"At 22, he was a spry, charming infantryman in the United States Army with a slicing wit and a stubborn streak. Then, on Easter Sunday 2009, a roadside bomb exploded under his vehicle, and he became the first veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to lose all four limbs in combat and survive."

To my knowledge - - perhaps I am wrong - - the ONLY soldier to lose all four limbs and survive in any conflict. The wounds were cauterized by the bomb - - death by loss of blood being prevented. In the past, such a severe injury would an inevitable death? NOT NOW!

[the worst war wounded but surviving soldier of the Vietnam War was an infantry lieutenant who lost both legs, one arm, and could not hold his head erect anymore!!]

"In the nearly 15 months since, Specialist Marrocco has pushed past pain and exhaustion to learn to use his four prosthetics, though he can walk for only 15 minutes at a time . . . He has also met, fallen in love with and proposed marriage to a young woman"

This guy is remarkable and I hope the best for him. It is going to be rough and I am sure he knows it too.

I saw the program on TV about Brendan and he DOES seem to have the right attitude and mental wherewithal so that his future is guaranteed. I hope so.

Modern medical care, the development of physical therapy combined with prosthesis does offer a lot for the severely wounded such as Brendan and others like him.

These men and those women too wounded in such a fashion are due whatever care and treatment is available and needed.

Dalton Trumbo had Brendan in mind when he wrote "Johnny"? "Johnny" of course was fictional but Brendan is NOT! Brendan makes Dalton look small!

coolbert.