Paralympic athlete and amputee Kortney Clemons encourages Hatian amputees to stay strong

With the flash of a roadside bomb, everything that Kortney Clemons had ever known changed. As a U.S. Army medic in Iraq, he was a week away from returning home when the blast took his right leg above the knee.

Just as thousands of Haitians a world away are grappling with the traumatic loss of a limb and a sudden shift in identity, so are U.S. soldiers who fought in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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