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Article: Crane Learning and Employment Center Hits Home for Disabled Veterans.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Imagine signing up to serve your country, fulfilling a desire to preserve freedom and protect those things you hold most dear. Now imagine that your mission ends with terrible consequences -- the loss of your right arm. Your service to your country has ended, but what will you do now?
This is the exact question Steven Clark, a native of Indiana, faced after shrapnel from an IED hit his right arm while he patrolled the streets in Iraq as a gunner on a HMMWV during Operation Iraqi Freedom (see also Crane Learning and Employment Center for Veterans with Disabilities).
But for Clark, his mission did not end with his debilitating injury. In fact, as he was ...