Injured Marine Helped By Gary Sinise Charity Speaks With 10News

This story has it all but most people are talking about a group of Marines doing something awful in Afghanistan.

This story is about what is possible when someone is helped and given hope, cared about by the Marines he served with and about love.

This is the kind of story that is played out everyday in Afghanistan and happened in Iraq but few ever know about it.

Injured Marine Helped By Actor's Charity Speaks With 10News

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POSTED: 11:19 am PST January 13, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- His left arm and both legs were ripped from his body, his ear drums shattered. He wasn't one of the "lucky" who lose consciousness. Corporal Juan Dominguez remembers it all.

"I woke up with a bad feeling that day, I knew something was going to happen," said Dominguez.

The 27-year-old Marine Corporal was on foot patrol in Sangin, Afghanistan assigned to a battalion from Camp Pendleton. A rifleman on the front line-safeguarding the way for others- when he stepped on a 30 pound improvised explosive device. It threw him 15 feet in the air.

"It was a Saving Private Ryan moment where everything was in slow motion. I saw dirt flying and I saw my legs. It looked like mangled raw meat. I knew at that time I was a double (amputee) but I didn't notice my arm right away. I was screaming for God to take the pain away. I was saying please if you are going to take me, take me now. If you are going to keep me on this earth, please make me numb God," Dominguez said.

Within minutes his fellow Marines found him in a cloud of smoke and they refused to let him die.


"They kept screaming at me saying this was my ticket to go home and see my daughter. They were bawling, these guys were my best friends," according to Dominguez.

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