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I chose early on to accept the loss of my leg. It wasn’t going to grow back, so, I had two choices.I either had to accept it or I could live in that constant state of ‘why me?’ And at Walter Reed (Army Medical Center), you know, I looked around and there were so many that were worse off than I was…missing two, three, four limbs – traumatic brain injuries or eyesight.So, I really felt that I was extremely lucky.