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...caught Grumet-Morris awkwardly, sending the puck floating back above his head and into the crease behind him, where it came to a brief and uneasy rest. With most skaters unsure just where the puck was, Colgate rushed the net en masse, knocking into Grumet-Morris as Raiders defenseman Joey Mormina staved off a check to the back to punch home the game-tying goal...
...SERGEANT JOEY BOZIK...
Weeks after an anititank mine ripped his body apart, Sergeant Joey Bozik, 26, emerged from a coma to find himself surrounded by relatives and friends at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As soon as he grasped the extent of his injuries, Bozik asked everyone but his fiancé to leave the room. Although he and Jayme Peters had spent only a few weeks in each other's presence--they met via e-mail while Bozik was stationed in Afghanistan--they had made plans for a life together filled with travel and outdoor activities. A gymnast and exercise-physiology student, Peters...
Bozik attributes a big part of his relentlessly upbeat attitude to his new wife, but some of it is constitutional. "Even as a child growing up, Joey never ever threw a tantrum, never cursed," says his mother Gail, who raised three boys alone after her husband died of a heart attack when Joey was 2. Her youngest son joined the Army in early 2001 because money was tight and he wanted to study criminology and become a law-enforcement officer. His commitment to the military only grew stronger after 9/11. "Even knowing that I would lose three limbs, I would...
Bozik has to work out how he's going to support the family he and Jayme want to have. His mother has set up a trust fund for donor contributions, and the Homes for Our Troops organization plans to help Joey and Jayme build a home--they're leaning toward settling in Colorado--with the wide doorways and specialized bathrooms that amputees require. But Bozik is the kind of man who will open a packet of chips with his teeth rather than ask for assistance. A law-enforcement career is now out of the question, but he's thinking...