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After a year of rehabilitation at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, Braddock is driving his Jeep Wrangler home this week to Vancouver, Wash., to see his mom, play tabletop war games with his buddies and try to get out of the Guard--not to leave the military but to join the Army. He wants to go back to Iraq, never mind the missing leg. After all, with its high-tech Renegade foot, his new one has made him faster and funnier. Why test fate a second time? Because he loves the military, loves guns and loved...
...become of the young man photographed on a doctor's examining table calmly inspecting the remains of his severed limb. It's a scene being played out daily as soldiers and Guardsmen come home from Iraq seeking treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Brooke in San Antonio and veterans' hospitals nationwide. Three years since the start of the war, the toll of seriously wounded from Iraq exceeds 7,600--men and women without limbs, with horrid burns, with brain damage, all of them dealing with the psychological scars of war. Braddock is just one of at least...
...Imperial Guard ("the National Guard of the future," he says) with the game's Space Orks. "It's a way of acting like a kid and getting away with it," he admits. But he is a serious history buff too and has visited every mission church near San Antonio, including the Alamo. "Just don't get him talking about World War II," warns his mother...
...ANTONIO R. LUPHER ’07 of Tacoma, Wash. and Mather House Online Editor...
ROSA M. NORTON ’08 of San Antonio, Texas and Lowell House...