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October 30th, 2009, 7:42 pm
Injured soldier, Carl Miskotten's altruism bring crowd to tears
By Susan Harrison Wolffis | Muskegon Chroni...
October 30, 2009, 5:44PM
Chronicle/Ken StevensBrendan Marrocco, a 23-year-old Iraq war veteran originally from Huguenot, N.Y., at Hot Rod Harley-Davidson in Muskegon with his dream car a 2006 Dodge Charger SRTB. He was severely wounded April 12, 2009, in an attack, and his four limbs were amputated. When Carl Miskotten, who co-owns Hot Rod Harley-Davidson and the West Michigan Auto Auction in Wayland, heard Marrocco’s dream car was the Charger he went to work to fulfill Marrocco's dream.
Grown men wept.
Veterans of war and soldiers on active duty stood shoulder to shoulder, clutching small American flags, trying to hold onto their emotions.
Women in the crowd issued silent prayers, immediately sending them heavenward to protect others stationed in harm’s way.
When U.S. Army Spec. Brendan Marrocco wheeled into Hot Rod Harley-Davidson in downtown Muskegon Friday, pushed in his wheelchair because he has no hands and no legs, a casualty of the war in Iraq, men who have seen the horrors of war up close dissolved into tears.
“Welcome home, soldier,” called out an emotional David Eling, who was a medic in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Eling is executive director of Muskegon County’s Department of Veteran Affairs.
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/10/injured_soldier_gesture_bring.html
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By Susan Harrison Wolffis | Muskegon Chroni...
October 30, 2009, 5:44PM
Chronicle/Ken StevensBrendan Marrocco, a 23-year-old Iraq war veteran originally from Huguenot, N.Y., at Hot Rod Harley-Davidson in Muskegon with his dream car a 2006 Dodge Charger SRTB. He was severely wounded April 12, 2009, in an attack, and his four limbs were amputated. When Carl Miskotten, who co-owns Hot Rod Harley-Davidson and the West Michigan Auto Auction in Wayland, heard Marrocco’s dream car was the Charger he went to work to fulfill Marrocco's dream.
Grown men wept.
Veterans of war and soldiers on active duty stood shoulder to shoulder, clutching small American flags, trying to hold onto their emotions.
Women in the crowd issued silent prayers, immediately sending them heavenward to protect others stationed in harm’s way.
When U.S. Army Spec. Brendan Marrocco wheeled into Hot Rod Harley-Davidson in downtown Muskegon Friday, pushed in his wheelchair because he has no hands and no legs, a casualty of the war in Iraq, men who have seen the horrors of war up close dissolved into tears.
“Welcome home, soldier,” called out an emotional David Eling, who was a medic in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Eling is executive director of Muskegon County’s Department of Veteran Affairs.
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/10/injured_soldier_gesture_bring.html
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