Wounded vet makes progress in recovery

Wounded vet makes progress in recovery

By Anna Krejci, Dells Events | Posted: Friday, May 6, 2011

A little over a year ago, Army Spc. Michael Gawel, serving in Afghanistan, received injuries to his spine from an improvised explosive device that tore apart his vehicle.

In that span of time he recuperated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. where he was wheelchair bound most of the time, to walking with a cane at his Wisconsin Dells home.

As for what's happening in Afghanistan now, Gawel said he follows the news. Sunday night President Barack Obama announced that Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Bin Laden is blamed for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

"It was a good job to the soldiers for doing what we were over there for. I'm not going to say I'm glad about anybody getting killed. I guess it brings us one step closer to the win on the war on terrorism in my mind," he said.

Now he is on his feet and walking without a cane while he performs office work for the Army National Guard in Reedsburg.
read more here
Wounded vet makes progress in recovery