Becky Wilf shared AMERICAN - STRONG!s photo with this comment: R.I.P. In addition to losing both legs, his injuries included a broken jaw and collarbone, shrapnel wounds, collapsed lungs, blood clots in the lungs. The muscle and skin flaps on his amputation stumps failed to close properly and resulted in nonhealing wounds. Corporal Owens said he subsequently underwent repeated amputations which further reduced the size of his stumps while a patient at VA and military hospitals. After a return to college which proved unsuccessful due to Traumatic Brain Injury, Corporal Owens became an accomplished paralympian skier and marathon runner in the paralympic games. In 2012, he told CBS News that he suffered from a traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder.“I really don’t think I’ll ever be free. I don’t think the burden of war is ever gone,” Owens said.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:48:00 +0000
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