MISS JOAN
05-25-2008, 04:57 AM
'Miracle' Marine loses final battle
Terribly burned in Iraq blast, sergeant defied odds; 'he was unstoppable'
The young Marine came back from the war, with his toughest fight ahead of him.
Merlin German waged that battle in the quiet of a Texas hospital, far from the dusty road in Iraq where a bomb exploded, leaving him with burns over 97 percent of his body.
No one expected him to survive.
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But for more than three years, he would not surrender. He endured more than 100 surgeries and procedures. He learned to live with pain, to stare at a stranger's face in the mirror. He learned to smile again, to joke, to make others laugh.
He became known as the "Miracle Man."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24805978/
Terribly burned in Iraq blast, sergeant defied odds; 'he was unstoppable'
The young Marine came back from the war, with his toughest fight ahead of him.
Merlin German waged that battle in the quiet of a Texas hospital, far from the dusty road in Iraq where a bomb exploded, leaving him with burns over 97 percent of his body.
No one expected him to survive.
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p36/MARINEJIM/Picture183.jpg
But for more than three years, he would not surrender. He endured more than 100 surgeries and procedures. He learned to live with pain, to stare at a stranger's face in the mirror. He learned to smile again, to joke, to make others laugh.
He became known as the "Miracle Man."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24805978/