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it only took an email to get Travis

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green back in the gamut of being a

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competitive athlete . I live in Boise

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Idaho so there's not a lot of adaptive

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sports out there . And so I jumped on

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any opportunity that looks like a fun

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trip . That email lead Travis to the

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2010 warrior games in Colorado to

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compete against the other service

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branches . You know , it's so hard to

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find adaptive sports sometimes when you

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go home and so you know , when I was

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going through my recovery sports was

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like the best medicine . Travis along

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with three other marines and one Navy

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corpsman were injured in a secondary I

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E D blast while giving aid to a wounded

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marine in december of 2000 and five .

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It was that I E D blast in Iraq that

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took Travis's legs but not his

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competitive spirit . You know , I was

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an athlete before my injury and so come

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out and find that I'm still an athlete

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after I lose my legs . Is is a huge

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thing . It's that sentiment that most

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athletes competing in this year's

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Marine Corps trials brought to the

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table . This is just a great event . I

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mean , 10 days of doing sports than

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make the warrior games and you got 21

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days and nothing but sports . So it's

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just , this happened for me . Travis

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and the other athletes are living up to

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the wounded warrior regiment's motto ,

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still in the fight as they edge closer

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to the all Marine team from Camp

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Pendleton California , I'm staff

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sergeant will skeleton