Marine stars in documentary about recovery after losing legs

Marine from Loudoun County stars in documentary about recovery

By Susan Svrluga, Published: August 21

Rob Jones and his friend Ivan Kander grew up in western Loudoun County making movies together. Kander shot comedies, action films, school projects — all kinds of stories — with a clunky old camcorder, always starring Jones.

“I always wanted to be the person telling the story,” Kander said. “Rob always wanted to be the person in the story.”

Jones joined the Marine Corps and became a combat engineer. Last summer, while searching for IEDs in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan, he triggered an explosion that blew off most of his two legs.

Within days, back at the National Naval Medical Center, when Jones was still freaking out on morphine, having more surgeries than he could count, wracked by phantom pain in the limbs that were no longer there and unable to sleep because of nightmares and flashbacks, he and Kander decided to make another movie. Starring Rob Jones, of course.
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