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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 […]