wfooshee
O, Woe is me!!
i saw this commercial today during the coverage of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and not having heard of the guy, looked him up.
He enlisted in the Marines in late 2000/early 2001 (I've seen both dates shown.) He was riding a Humvee in Iraq that tripped an IED in 2006, took shrapnel all over his left side. He came home and entered civilian life in 2007, found a way to deal with things and meet his adrenaline needs in learning to drive. He built a quick car, did track days, autocrossed, took the Skip Barber driving school.
In 2009 he up and re-enlisted, and was deployed to Afghanistan.
In 2011 he stepped on a ****y trap and got his leg blown off, his other leg nearly blown off, his arm nearly blown off, and was saved only by the tremendous efforts of his buddies on the scene. Month go by, surgeries, therapy, learning to get around in a wheelchair, and he's told he'll never walk or drive.
He has won his class twice in the last two years in the Continental Tire Sportscar series driving a Mazda Miata, with a special fitting that attaches his prosthetic leg to the clutch pedal, nothing else needed in the car to allow him its use.
He doesn't drive the full season's events because, you see, he's STILL AN ACTIVE-DUTY MARINE!!!!!
With athletes like this out there, it simply pisses me off that ESPN can call a long-haired cross-dresser "courageous." Completely incomprehensible!
He enlisted in the Marines in late 2000/early 2001 (I've seen both dates shown.) He was riding a Humvee in Iraq that tripped an IED in 2006, took shrapnel all over his left side. He came home and entered civilian life in 2007, found a way to deal with things and meet his adrenaline needs in learning to drive. He built a quick car, did track days, autocrossed, took the Skip Barber driving school.
In 2009 he up and re-enlisted, and was deployed to Afghanistan.
In 2011 he stepped on a ****y trap and got his leg blown off, his other leg nearly blown off, his arm nearly blown off, and was saved only by the tremendous efforts of his buddies on the scene. Month go by, surgeries, therapy, learning to get around in a wheelchair, and he's told he'll never walk or drive.
He has won his class twice in the last two years in the Continental Tire Sportscar series driving a Mazda Miata, with a special fitting that attaches his prosthetic leg to the clutch pedal, nothing else needed in the car to allow him its use.
He doesn't drive the full season's events because, you see, he's STILL AN ACTIVE-DUTY MARINE!!!!!
With athletes like this out there, it simply pisses me off that ESPN can call a long-haired cross-dresser "courageous." Completely incomprehensible!
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