Luis Puertas fixes his prosthetic blades on his residual limbs during one of his daily training sessions in a sports complex in Orlando, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. Puertas, 34, lost both his legs in September 2006 as he patrolled a crowded Baghdad neighborhood. His legs were severed when […]
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Combat vets vie at Paralympics
FREMONT, Ind. (AP) — The bald, broad-shouldered cyclist has spent years remembering a nighttime road in a faraway city. He can still describe the city’s narrow streets and crushing heat. He talks about the dead end that forced his convoy turn around. And the explosion. “It’ll always be a part […]