“The Road Back: A Wounded Savannah Soldier's Journey” |
| The Road Back: A Wounded Savannah Soldier's Journey Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:45 PM PDT SAVANNAH, GA -- The Coastal Empire is home to thousands of American Heroes... men and women who put their lives on the line time and time again. Some don't ever come home... making the ultimate sacrifice. Others come home but are wounded by war. In a Three On Your Side Special Report -- News Three's Alice Massimi introduces us to one of the severely wounded Cory Remsburg is perhaps one of the most driven, dedicated, and inspirational people I've met. Motivated by a love for his country, Cory is beating the odds one day at a time.
"He just loved life and he was always swimming and running and doing all the things that made his life very full," explains Cory's Stepmother Annie Remsburg. Growing up in Indianapolis with his dad Craig and Annie, Remsburg was a happy go lucky guy. A hard worker but also a kid who liked to have fun. "We always called him our wild child because if you told Cory he couldn't do something that is what he was going to do." Which is perhaps where Cory's desire to join the Army came from. A decision made even before his High School Graduation. "At 17 Cory went to his dad and said I want to go into the military and I you to sign for me." But dad wanted Cory to give college a chance first... and he did... till the morning of his 18th morning... "Our doorbell rang about 530 in the am and Cory went bounding down the stairs and my husband and I are waking up. The recruiter came through the door." Before Cory knew it he was headed to Fort Benning Georgia for basic training... It was here Cory learned about the U.S. Army Rangers... the army's elite infantry unit. "When you challenge my son he will give it everything he's got." So it was no surprise when Cory made it through the rigors of Ranger School and was assigned to the First Battalion Seventy Fifth Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield. Stationed at Hunter for close to 9 years Cory would spend much of it overseas... deploying ten times. "I placed it in God's hands. I respected what my children decided to do. I admired what they did." On October first Annie's world came crashing down... "They said Anne you have an emergency call. Craig's words were, are you sitting down? I said yes and I said are you okay and he said yes and I said it's Cory, he said yup," recalls Annie through tears. Returning from a mission an Improvised Explosive Device went off... it killed SGT Roberto Sanchez and injured several others including Cory who was thrown into a canal. "When they pulled him out of the canal...even one of his best friends told us when he cut Cory out of his uniform he thought he was saying goodbye to him." "When they found him the blast tore basically one side of his head off as well as cause multiple trauma to his face to the rest of his body including burns and other things," explains Dr. Steven Miller, the Director of Polytrauma at the James A Haley Veterans Hospital. "They did not give us a lot of hope. They said basically he was in critical condition that's all we kept being told and then when they started saying the family should be flown out to be by his bedside...that's not a good thing," says Annie. Fighting infection and growing pressure in his brain Cory's condition was touch and go... "I prayed really hard as we all did…and we never left his side 24/7. We had 5 of us over there and we took shifts, " explains Annie. Three brain surgeries later Cory was stable enough to fly to the states... "During that flight he also had problems with pressures in his brain increased. His temperature went up, he had some critical elements so when he landed in Washington they immediately took him by ambulance right to intensive care," recalls Dr. Miller. He was home and his condition did stabilize ...but Cory Remsburg was still in a coma. In November Cory came to the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa bit it wouldn't be till January when Cory emerged from his coma. "Its not like Hollywood they don't just wake up and go ohh I am out of my coma. Its such a long process," says Annie. But the family stayed positive... grateful their son was alive. "God has a plan that is why he is here." "I don't remember much," adds Cory. Tomorrow night at 6 we'll hear from Cory and take you through his demanding days of rehab. He has a long road ahead of him but Cory Remsburg it seems is not going to let anything stand in his way. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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