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Shahnaz,14, sits on the floor of her family home November 17,2006 in Herat. She tired to commit suicide a year ago pratically crippling herself from the severe burns after her father lost her in a gambling match. She spent a year in the Herat…

BEIT HANOUN, GAZA STRIP APRIL 9: Relatives mourn over the body of police officer Yasser Abu Jarad,28, who was killed on Sunday, injuring 16 others when an Israeli artillery fired the northern town of Beit Hanoun , Gaza Strip, April 9, 2006. Israel…

Hassim carries a TV, barefoot walking in the rubble of his destroyed home on June 1, 2006 in Bantul, Indonesia. Over 6,200 people have been killed when a powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Central Java on May 27,2006.The quake's epicenter was…

Anderson is wheeled toward a flag lowered to half-mast. His friends from the 411th Military Police Company had known him as high-spirited, energetic and driven. After seeing Anderson at their reunion, they were not surprised that he was still the…

Anderson reacts during a concert after singer Tracey Lawrence thanked him for 'the ultimate sacrifice.' He says that even if he had not been wounded, he would not have stayed in the Army when his enlistment expired. “I hated it,” he says. “It…

Kelly Whiteside, of Belton, Tx. reaches over a railing to caress Bryan Anderson, 25, after his presence was announced over the loud speaker during a concert held near the Fort Hood Army Base where Anderson was stationed before his 2nd tour in Iraq. …

Sometimes I'm like, 'Man, why did this have to happen to me?' But then I'm like, 'Well, I'm alive, you know? I AM ALIVE !'' Anderson says. He is among over 500 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who have undergone amputations. Over 20,000 U.S.…

During a reunion with the same soldiers that saved his life Anderson went tubing in a local lake with their help. 'I want to do everything I used to do,' Anderson says of how he wants to live his life after the injury.

Anderson plays catch with a baseball for the first time since losing his limbs. To coordinate with his humorous 'Stumpy' T-shirt display he bought a similar one for his girlfriend that read, 'I'm With Stumpy.'

Arriving in Killeen, Texas to visit with the soldiers who were with him on the day that irrevocably changed his life, Anderson stood briefly on his prosthetic legs before retreating back into his wheelchair. 'Hurt like hell,' he said later. 'But I…