Helping the Helpless Vets Foundation & Girl Scout Troop 3221 of Lewisville, Attend event at Love Field Airport to welcome home veterans of WWII & Korean.
Today’s#VeteranOfTheDayis Melissa Stockwell of the U.S. Army. She was deployed to
Iraq and in 2004 became the first woman to lose a limb in the war when an IED
detonated alongside her convoy.
Melissa later became the first Iraq Veteran to
compete in the Paralympics and was the flag bearer at the 2008 closing
ceremonies. Since then she has turned her attention to paratriathlon, and hopes
to represent the U.S. as the sport debuts at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Luis Almaguer of the U.S. Marine Corps. Luis enlisted in 1997 at the age of 20. He was deployed to Iraq with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit in June 2004 as a member of the Personal Security Detachment.