Veteran, Amputee and Olympian: Melissa Stockwell Is Living Life to the Fullest

Regaining consciousness, surrounded by the “beep, beep, beep” of hospital machinery, made her heart sink. Where was she? What went wrong? Second Lieutenant Melissa Stockwell’s last memory was riding in a routine Army convoy in Iraq. Route Irish was well-known as IED alley, and traveling that route on April 13, 2004, changed Melissa’s life forever....

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