{"id":1942,"date":"2007-05-30T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T22:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2017-05-21T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T07:02:09","slug":"us-soldiers-with-missing-limbs-allowed-to-return-to-active-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/us-soldiers-with-missing-limbs-allowed-to-return-to-active-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. soldiers with missing limbs allowed to return to active duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/041016amputee.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/041016amputee.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>In the blur of smoke and blood after a bomb blew up under his Humvee in Iraq, Sgt. Tawan Williamson looked down at his shredded leg and knew it couldn&#8217;t be saved. His military career, though, pulled through.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year after the attack, Williams is running again with a high-tech prosthetic leg and plans to take up a new assignment, probably by the fall, as an Army job counselor and affirmative action officer in Okinawa, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In an about-face by the Pentagon, the military is putting many more amputees back on active duty &#8212; even back into combat, in some cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090817053110\/http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com:80\/trn\/local_news\/article\/0,1891,TRN_5784_5562143,00.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press In the blur of smoke and blood after a bomb blew up under his Humvee in Iraq, Sgt. Tawan Williamson looked down at his shredded leg and knew it couldn&#8217;t be saved. His military career, though, pulled through. 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