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please .

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That's

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yeah ladies . Mm .

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And they do it . Yeah .

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Nicholas and I . C . H . O . L . A . S .

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Green G . R . E . E . N . Nice corporal .

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And your hometown philadelphia ?

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Pennsylvania . And how old are 21 ?

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Can you tell me when you enlisted in

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the marine enlisted Marine Corps on

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June 16 , 2008 ? No

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if you don't mind telling me how you ,

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how you were injured . I was injured

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this past august uh Me and a friend

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where , well I was with a bunch of

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friends . We went to a friend's house

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that night uh in north philadelphia . I

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was home only we went up there for they

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were just they got a new apartment so

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we were just hanging out there and

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throughout the night me and another

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friend we walked like a couple

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blocks and a guy tried to rob

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us . And during that he uh he shot

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me and I don't really remember any of

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it . So pretty much everything I tell

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you about is just from what I've been

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told by my friend who was there . So

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yeah it was just a guy trying to rob me

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shot me . You don't know what happened

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right after you got shot . No I don't I

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don't remember anything . I don't even

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remember . I don't remember anything

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from even seeing the guy . I don't

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remember anything from there on . So

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pretty much everything I know is just

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what I've heard . I was shot in the hip .

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My right hip and it severed the artery

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to my leg And that's how I lost a leg .

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Okay . Can you tell me a little bit

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about your recuperation and recovery

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process recovery at first , it was when

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I first got to hospital , I was

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actually medically sedated for about 23

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days . I think it was because for a

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while they couldn't , I was on a

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ventilator . They couldn't get me

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breathing again for a while . Yeah ,

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And I was like 20 , some days later

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they were actually talking about doing

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a tracheotomy to get me started

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breathing again . Then some , the day

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they were talking about doing

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tracheotomy , I just woke up about

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or your games , helping you , um , with

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your visitation , getting back to your

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sports . How has this experience helped

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you and getting back just feeling like

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normal life , uh , doing the warrior

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games ? Well , first of trials didn't

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wear games help me get back into sport

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some of that . Cause at first , like at

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first I really didn't think I'd ever be

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able to ever really do any is physical

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activity like that , especially not

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competitively and just being able to

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come out to the trials and wear games

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show me like even if I can't do the

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same exact sports I did before ,

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there's still different things that I

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can do that I can compete compete ,

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which , uh , most marines love to

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compete in wind . So it's definitely ,

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I just , it's definitely really good .

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So you're saying the warrior Games is

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giving you a lot more hope and carla

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clarity towards the future . Yeah ,

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that's the word games , definitely . It

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does give me hope for if I'm doing this

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now , hopefully if I come out here next

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year then I'll be running . That's

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that's kind of before . I wasn't even

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thinking like we'll be able to do this

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in this amount of time now I come out

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here is like , all right , I'm doing

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this now . By this time next year I'll

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be running . So it definitely makes me

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look towards the future and see that

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there's definitely a lot more to come .

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Yeah .