reblogged via gotemcoach:

Michael Kacer lost his left arm in rocket attack in Afghanistan in 2008.

Achilles International, a nonprofit group helping the disabled get back to playing sports, got the 11-year veteran great seats to a recent Yankees/Rockies game.  Kacer took care of the rest.  That’s one hell of a play, sir.

And so you know, Kacer gave the ball to the kid next to him - his nephew - and the Yankee stadium crowd gave him a standing ovation.

U.S.A.

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latimes: Ricky Gilleland, a tech-savvy 11th-grader, has created the only digitized record of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Faye Fiore reports: He has created the only digitized record of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans laid to rest at Arlington. His website, preserveandhonor.com, is a reverent catalog of the fallen, and one young man’s response to a scandal of Army mismanagement, mismarked graves and unmarked remains that has rocked this hallowed place for two years. Photo credit: Chris Usher / For The Times

latimes:

Ricky Gilleland, a tech-savvy 11th-grader, has created the only digitized record of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Faye Fiore reports:

He has created the only digitized record of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans laid to rest at Arlington. His website, preserveandhonor.com, is a reverent catalog of the fallen, and one young man’s response to a scandal of Army mismanagement, mismarked graves and unmarked remains that has rocked this hallowed place for two years.

Photo credit: Chris Usher / For The Times

(Source: Los Angeles Times)