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‘Miracle Marine’ dies after beating odds

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usa.jpgA Marine sergeant who became a symbol of resilience as he strove to recover from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq that blanketed 97 percent of his body with burns has died, the Defense Department said. He was 22He was severely wounded February 21, 2005, en route to Camp Ramadi when his Humvee hit a roadside bomb.He was transported to Germany and then to Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, which has the U.S. military’s top burns unit.He endured more than 40 surgeries, spent 17 months in a hospital and had to learn to walk again.

“Sometimes I do think I can’t do it,” he told The Associated Press last year. “Then I think: Why not? I can do whatever I want. … Nobody has ever been 97 percent dead and survived, and lived to walk”.

Renz remembers being impressed with German from the start and said,”There was consensus he was going to be a someone who would probably break some of the previous expectations about survivability. If someone was going to survive, he was going to be that individual”.



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