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" THE rocket-propelled gre nade didn't detonate as it pierced the Humvee on a Ramadi street last March. But it blew through at just the right angle to tear off the legs of the machine gunner in the turret.
Pfc. Adrian Garcia, a boyishly handsome 19-year-old from El Paso - a soldier with a smile as wide as Texas and eyes that could stop a pretty girl in the street - was manning that machine-gun. Then the world became a blur.
Adrian had been in Iraq 21 days. Speaking from his wheelchair now, he'll still tell you, proudly, that he's an 11B - an "Eleven Bravo," an infantryman."
HELPING HEROES
Pfc. Adrian Garcia, a boyishly handsome 19-year-old from El Paso - a soldier with a smile as wide as Texas and eyes that could stop a pretty girl in the street - was manning that machine-gun. Then the world became a blur.
Adrian had been in Iraq 21 days. Speaking from his wheelchair now, he'll still tell you, proudly, that he's an 11B - an "Eleven Bravo," an infantryman."
HELPING HEROES