Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler
Poignant story from the Killeen Daily Herald:
SALADO, Texas – A soldier who was severely wounded in the Nov. 5, 2009, shooting at Fort Hood and his fiancee are getting the house of their dreams, courtesy of the ABC television show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and an army of volunteers working this week. Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler, who returned home from Iraq two weeks prior to the shooting, was hit four times in last year’s attack and suffered a nearly fatal wound to his head.
Zeigler’s head wound forced his doctors to remove 20 percent of his brain, and, among other things, he has had to learn to walk again. The dead die only once. It’s important to note that as the wounded — of wars abroad or craziness at home — fade from the news, their challenges don’t.