Former Navy swimmer in the Paralympics

[bruno]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...8b2680-eff7-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html

Good luck and thank you Lt Snyder

...Bradley Snyder is midway through a seven-event schedule at the Paralympic Games, which end Sept. 9. He won a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle Friday and a silver in the 50-meter freestyle Saturday. A former captain of the U.S. Naval Academy’s swim team, Snyder never imagined he would be in this meet. Nevertheless, it marks his return to a sport that once helped define who he was, before bad luck changed everything.

In Afghanistan a year ago, a booby-trap bomb blew up in front of Snyder, a Navy lieutenant in an explosive-ordnance disposal unit. His face took the brunt of the blast. He now has two glass eyes....

 

[Hurricane12]

I've been following this for a while and it still blows me away. LT Snyder has already won both a gold and a silver and set a Paralympic record.

Something I can't remember if the WaPo article pointed out: his best race during the Paralympics is going to take place on the anniversary of the date he was wounded.

Some more about vets in the Paralympics:

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/30/160247220/doing-it-to-win-veterans-raise-bar-at-paralympics

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/paralympics-2012-wounded-veterans_n_1844611.html?utm_hp_ref=sports&ir=Sports#slide=more247834

Profiles of military athletes competing at the Paralympics:
http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2012/0812_paralympics/