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Phantom pain was a daily topic at OT--occupational therapy, the whittling porch for amputees. I made my first friends there. Most of my neighbors were half my age and from different backgrounds, small-town boys who had passed up college or blue-collar trades for a military life. I was urban, overeducated, untattooed and distrustful of uniforms and blind patriotism. But I soon discovered that I shared something with those soldiers larger than the differences in our biographies. We were men struggling for identity. The psychological scars of amputation ran deeper than those from conventional wounds...
...tone in OT could shift from laughter to grave silence in the moment it took a soldier to scream in pain or explode into anger. Captain Katie segregated the angriest amputees. Her morning sessions bristled with tension. Metallica and Motorhead blared from speakers. One specialist who had trouble picking up a peg with his above-the-elbow prosthesis flung the $115,000 device against a wall. "I ain't doing it anymore," he shouted. Another threw the metal pedal of his wheelchair into a costly exercise machine...
Specialist James Fair, 22, had the cruelest of all fates; not only had he lost his sight, he had no hands for Braille or a cane. Still recovering from a brain injury in late December, he was wheeled into OT for sensory perception tests. He rolled his head back and forth, unresponsive to the therapists...
...With the ref’s whistles pocketed, more contact on the next possession led to another turnover, putting the ball in Greenman’s hands with 20 seconds left. The senior point guard, who killed Harvard by scoring the final seven points in the 2004 double-OT win, calmly passed out of a double-team to find Savage for the open look. Even before the shot went up, everyone in the arena knew that the force of history would guide the ball through the net. —CALEB W. PEIFFER
...received an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. It will play Syracuse in the First Round on May 14. It was a bit of a surprise after Saturday’s game, in which the outcome appeared to be far more devastating than the Crimson’s previous triple-OT game, a win against Denver a month ago. After the last goal of regulation on Saturday with 2:22 remaining, the match went 11:38 without a score until Big Green freshman Brian Koch put the game away with 1:16 gone in the third overtime.In those periods, Harvard appeared...