February 14, 2005Back In Action
He's also got a Purple Heart. Capt. David Rozelle has a prosthetic leg, after losing the real one to a roadside bomb in Iraq. Now, sans foot, he's being cleared to go back to Iraq for another 6-month tour, after which he'll return to Washington. He'll be working at the new amputee center at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Rozelle has written a book, Back In Action, about the injury and his recovery. There's some concern he may have been too successful... In the book, Rozelle deals honestly with the period he spent feeling sorry for himself. He writes of kicking an addiction to morphine that accompanied the amputation and a bout of drinking too much that came with the recovery. Those struggles, along with much of the daily pain, are hidden when he tucks his uniform over his prosthetic. Now that's courage. Posted by joshuasharf at February 14, 2005 06:37 AM | TrackBack |
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