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Dan Sheret, an amputee who bicycled 360 miles to visit yesterday with U.S. soldiers who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked a young soldier in Ward 57 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to autograph his T-shirt.
"We're going to wear the shirts across Europe to show them what Americans are made of," Mr. Sheret told Staff Sgt. Heath Calhoun, 24, who lost both his legs above the knee in Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 7, 2003, when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the Humvee he was riding in.See the full content of this document
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Sgt. Calhoun took the shirt and signed it with a Sharpee pen. "Tell the French we said 'Hi,'" he told Mr. Sheret, and smiled. Those in the hallway exploded with laughter.
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