Tammy Duckworth

My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.

My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.