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Corporal Garrett S. Jones, an amputee who was injured in 2007 by an insurgent’s bomb during his unit’s deployment to Iraq, shows his prosthetic leg. Jones is a 23-year-old Newberg, Ore., native. - Corporal Garrett S. Jones, an amputee who was injured in 2007 by an insurgent’s bomb during his unit’s deployment to Iraq, shows his prosthetic leg. Jones is a 23-year-old Newberg, Ore., native.

Marine amputee returns to combat after near death experience

There was blood in the water. It was a grim addition to the Iraqi sewage canal usually littered with dead sheep and festering fish. That’s where the Marines of Company E, 2d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division found their comrade after the attack.Just seconds before, Cpl. Garrett S. Jones was patrolling the streets of Iraq with his

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