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Skiing – Amputee vets learn more than skiing

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Andrew Bradley gazed down the beginner’s slope at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort through a mask of trepidation.

The 20-year-old soldier never skied before. Had never really seen snow, save the icy inch that occasionally gathers around his Texas home.

Oh, and Bradley’s right leg was blown off just two months ago by a roadside bomb that struck his patrol in Iraq, a fact that he seemed to consider no greater a challenge than slick snow and gravity.

“I know it’s weird, but it really never bothered me…  Details


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