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From High Point, North CarolinaEvery once in a while you run across one of those “feel good stories”. Those stories that show us just what a person can do when they really want it bad enough. And Ken Leonard has one of those stories.
In 2005, Ken Leonard left his job as a police officer in High Point, North Carolina to go to Iraq to work with a private security firm. In December of that year, Ken, along with five other men in his vehicle and six others in the vehicle behind him, was hit by a roadside bomb outside of Baghdad. “After the bomb went off, I knew exactly what had happened,” Leonard recalled. “My feet got jarred, so I knew they were hit.” While others in his vehicle were injured, he had received the worst of it. He had lost both his feet.
The vehicle behind them pushed Leonard's to a safer area. But flames were coming out of the air conditioning vents and they had to get out. Leonard crawled from the car and fell to the pavement. “That’s when I saw my feet,” he said. “I could tell they were gone. They were still attached, but they were shredded.”
On July 19, 2007, Ken Leonard went back to North Carolina to get his job back with the police force. To do that he needed to pass the Police Officers Physical Abilities Test, which, among other things, consisted of a 200-yard run to be finished in under 7 minutes, 20 seconds. And he did just that with 24 seconds to spare.
“Somebody told me one time they said, ‘You know, what you've lost is just bone and muscle. You've still got heart, and you've still got, you know, what's up here,'” Leonard said, pointing to his head.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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"We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived"
absolutely agree!
Aw, that's really inspirational! They deserve that recognition.
People look at cops and thing negative things. They should understand the sacrifices they make, and sometimes they make the ultimate sacrifice. Some of them, like this man, went overseas to fight for his country. Some of them volunteer as a firefighter. All of them are heros.