Soldier feels lucky to be alive after IED doesn't explode right

‘The price of war’
Soldier feels lucky to be alive
June 8, 2012
BY MARY WICOFF
Commercial-News

DANVILLE — Army Spc. Matthew Commons clearly remembers that day when 5 pounds of explosives shattered his world.

At first, he thought his legs were gone, but he looked down and didn’t see any blood.

Commons, a native of West Lebanon, Ind., was one of the lucky ones. The improvised explosive device he stepped on during patrol in Afghanistan on May 23 didn’t fully explode.

Now, he’s recovering in Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Maryland, with injuries to his right foot.

“I feel lucky to be alive,” he said in a telephone interview. “I’m glad I didn’t lose any limbs.”
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