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Shaking Hands with a Hero

Army vet­eran Bren­dan Marrocco’s armored vehi­cle was bombed in Iraq in 2009. The solider lost all four of his limbs in the blast, becom­ing the first U.S. ser­vice­man to sur­vive a quadru­ple ampu­ta­tion. TV sta­tion WEHT reports that six weeks ago, doc­tors at Johns Hop­kins Hos­pi­tal per­formed a double-arm trans­plant on Mar­rocco. A fan tweeted the Brendan’s remark­able story to Shel­ton on Tues­day and Blake responded say­ing, “Wow.. Speech­less. I will make this hap­pen!!” Shel­ton then sent a mes­sage directly to Mar­rocco, say­ing, “Hey Bren­dan.… I can’t WAIT to shake the hand of an Amer­i­can Hero/Stud… You my brother.” To which the sol­dier then replied, “Holy mother of God!! I can’t wait. I’m a huge fan and really look­ing for­ward to it. Thank you.”