Diving With Wounded Warriors

[Wakey]

Story by Tim Cothren
Underwater photographs by Steve Simonsen

"The only time I don't hurt is when I'm underwater," said Claburn, and he should know about pain. A veteran of four missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, a bad parachute deployment crashed him into a tree, and then dropped him 85 feet to the ground, breaking his back, ribs, legs, tailbone and shattering numerous others. "The doctors gave me a 30 percent chance of walking, but I got out of my wheelchair eight weeks ago, and now I'm scuba diving. When I'm weightless the pain goes away instantly; it is truly amazing."

the rest..

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0 ... lands.html

Picture gallery

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0 ... rs-bp.html

[Gromit]

This is such an awesome program!

[aroobagirl]

Under three minutes of program time and we waste how much on the likes of Miley Cyrus or Lindsay Lohan?! Seriously wrong!

[nothintolose]

Wakey - thanks for this - made my day!

[jimg20]

This is an outstanding program for some outstanding men and women. These people have given everything except their lives for us. We need to do anything we can to make their lives better whenever we can.

When this came up a few months ago, I proposed that we pool our resources and help their program. We can each donate the value of one dive. With a group of 10 or 15 people we can sponsor a wounded warior's dive trip.

After seeing this program and what it can do, who can say no to contrbuting to this?

JIM