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Rocky Bleier assurance that where is

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that right there ? Sometimes you keep

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walking help city .

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Yeah , Yeah . Mhm

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Jeff George wants to be a

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graduate , right ? Yeah .

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Yeah . All

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right ,

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wait a second here . Uh

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huh .

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You got to do things and I got to get

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back to work bought , puts

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down . Look for companies that have you

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2nd down classico with the catch .

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Yeah . Like this .

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Yeah . Last

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called

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car .

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We have to start first .

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Last over the catch .

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Brand new Fresh

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today , autographed pictures . The 1st

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1 is 6 , 4 - five . How do you feel

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about it ? Um , well , it was quite the

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honor to be invited out here to play

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flag football tonight with the NFL

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stars and showing the support that came

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out for this event is uh , was really

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extraordinary and it was a very unique

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event in itself because , um , this is

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the first time our softball team has

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played football in general since all of

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us lost our limbs . So it was a really

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new experience for everyone tonight .

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And you know , I'm so grateful to be

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here , especially that my team doing

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patriots in the Super Bowl . So it's

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really an honor to be here to be in

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Annapolis at that time . Really

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important . Um , well , my , my biggest

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thing is to show people that , you know ,

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I promote and inspire a pause and

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active lifestyle regardless of any

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situation , whether it's a limb . TB I

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pTSD um , the most powerful thing we

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have is our mind and there's a lot of

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things in life outside of our control ,

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but the one thing that we do have

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control over is our attitude , and I

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think these wounded warriors coming

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home , the quicker they're enrolled

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into , like , adaptive sports , or ,

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you know , for example , kayaking with

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team River Runner , uh , just to be out

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there in nature , and just to to leave

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all the war stuff behind and to go out

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there with your fellow veterans and

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share camaraderie experience will help

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in any stage of any type of injury , I

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think , and the biggest thing for me is

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I was involved in adaptive sports right

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away , which was crucial in my recovery .

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Mhm , and have experiences like this ,

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um , I think it's a wonderful

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experience , you know , and I'm blessed

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to have this unique opportunity . Um ,

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I think the amount of people that we

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have inspired in the last year , the

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numbers are astounding , and uh ,

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there's there's , there's like , little

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kids are amputees , we have them as our

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bad boys , that are games , and they're

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changed right away because at that age ,

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how many of the kids , their age were

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amputees ? Like , they're in their own

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world , little world , and I'm myself ,

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I've never even seen arm in arm amputee

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before my injury . Now , I see them ,

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I'm very active in the V . A , is I'm a

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peer mentor for nearly injured amputees ,

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and I'm just being around and no

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promoting , there is life after injury ,

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and that's the biggest message that

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when we step on the field and we play .

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That's the biggest message I think we

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convey to anybody , um , that life

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without a limb is limitless .