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In 1915, he joined the Australian armed forces and was sent to Gallipoli. For "ten weary weeks", he kept himself alive as "around [him] the corpses piled higher". Eventually, he is wounded by a shell burst and awakens in hospital to find that he has lost his legs. He declares it to be a fate worse than death, as he can "go no more waltzing ...
Read all of the stories here. Billy Monger had been racing cars for years when, at 17, an accident changed his life forever. Not only did he hop back on the race track, but he soon found himself ...
A police recruit who had to have both of his legs amputated after losing consciousness and repeatedly collapsing during fight training at Denver’s police academy is suing those who allegedly ...
Song of Summer was based on Eric Fenby's memoir Delius As I Knew Him (1936, republished in 1966), which recounts his offer to transcribe Frederick Delius's music from the composer's dictation. At the time, 66-year-old Delius lived with his wife Jelka and their servants in Grez-sur-Loing , roughly 70 kilometres south of Paris.
His legs were caught in a wood chipper during a freak accident 15 minutes into his first shift As a result, he lost both of his legs and more than 15 pints of blood, meaning all the blood in his ...
The Terry Fox Story won six awards, including Best Picture, at the 5th Genie Awards ceremony for Canadian film in 1984. Eric Fryer, the Scarborough amputee who played Fox, won Best Actor, and Michael Zelniker, won Best Supporting Actor for his role in playing Terry's best friend, Doug Alward. [10] Best Picture; Best Actor: Eric Fryer
Tim Karcher lost his legs in an IED explosion, three days after he took care of me while I was stranded in Sadr City, Iraq, as an NFL cheerleader on a USO tour in 2009. “God promised me eternal ...
He was discharged from the hospital four weeks after the blasts. Bauman was given his new prosthetic legs costing $100,000 each, which were manufactured by Ottobock and had micro-processors to follow his gait. He and Arredondo threw the ceremonial first pitches for the Boston Red Sox a few days later. [5] [7] [8] In September 2013, he announced ...