Zion Marine takes a long walk back home

Zion Marine takes a long walk back home
BY DAN MORAN
January 18, 2012

ZION — Seven months after an explosion in Afghanistan took both his legs and his left hand, Larry Bailey completed the road back to his parents’ home on Wednesday — walking the final 20 feet on his own.

Ignoring the wheelchair that his father, Larry Sr., had assembled behind him, Bailey clutched a cane and worked his way from the family SUV into his garage, stepping carefully along a driveway that had been cleared of snow and ice.

Later, relaxing with friends and family in his basement, Bailey admitted that he wasn’t sure how that last walk home was going to play out after weeks and months of physical therapy at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
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