J.R. AND JOSIE SALZMAN UPDATE |

J.R. AND JOSIE SALZMAN UPDATE
Name: SANDBOX DUTY OFFICER David Stanford
Posting date: 11/30/07

Longtime readers of The Sandbox will remember COPING, a post by world champion logroller J.R. Salzman, written from Walter Reed Army Medical Center shortly after he was wounded in Iraq, and his wife Josie's subsequent post about PTSD. Here's "Coming Home", a recent ESPN profile which provides a welcome update on their situation:

J.R.'s site: Lumberjack in a Desert
Josie's site: Life in a Cracker Box

Comments

[Brian]

Thanks for posting this story. I am amazed at the things the human spirit can endure. J.R. Salzman should be an inspiration to anyone for his courage, conviction and coping in situations that would make anyone want to shrink into nothingness. Bravo!!! Salzman!!!

[Troy]

Very good story. Thanks for posting this video David. I would really like to meet J.R. one day. Hopefully at a milblog conference or something one day I will be able to meet him.

[sherry]

Thanks for the update... I am so glad to hear that J.R. is still healing and has no regrets... The spirit is strong...