U.S. Army · Paralympian
Melissa Stockwell
“We don’t give ourselves enough credit on the things that we’re capable of doing.”
An Army lieutenant when a roadside bomb in Baghdad cost her a leg in 2004, Stockwell went on to become a Paralympic swimmer and world-champion paratriathlete, then co-founded a prosthetics practice and a nonprofit for athletes with disabilities.
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