Iraq veteran, triple amputee inspires crowd in Montana

Iraq veteran, triple amputee inspires crowd at MSU
GALLATIN COUNTY
NBC Montana
By Grace Ditzler, KTVM Reporter
Mar 26 2014

BOZEMAN, Mont.
Bryan Anderson has survived the odds, being one of only a few triple amputees to make it back from Iraq alive.

In October of 2005, an IED explosion left him without both his legs and left hand.

"And that really kind of forced me to live in the moment, focus on what was in front of me," Anderson told a crowd of a few hundred at Montana State University on Wednesday. He shared his story, and what life is like now.

Anderson spent 13 months in rehab before returning home, and says the hardest part of his recovery was the fear of the unknown.

"Getting past the fact that you don't know what's going to happen in the next few months or next year after rehab, but you just kind of have to go through it," he said.
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