Tommy Guinn
escorts his daughter Dustie down the aisle at her wedding
Army
wife Bobbie Guinn remembers the heartbreak she felt when she told her children
that their father would never walk again.
“I remember driving
down the road in the car with my children and my daughter asking how her daddy
was going to walk her down the aisle someday,” Bobby says. “I remember telling
her, ‘you know your dad; he’s going to figure it out.’”
Elias
Rojas was serving in the Marine Corps as a lance corporal at Camp Pendleton.
After a car accident while on active duty, Rojas was hospitalized for 10
months.
As he
started to recover, he started to look for a job. But over a two-year period of
searching; he saw firsthand how tough it was going to be find employment. “I
would interview for jobs and find out they didn’t have elevators orADA compliantbathrooms.
Bronx,
New Yorker Marlon Benn was injured while serving in the Navy during the first
Gulf War in the early 1990s, but he didn’t have a name for the resulting
medical condition until 2005, when an MRI revealed that he had syringomyelia.
The disease is characterized by cyst formation in the spinal cord.
After
leaving the military in 1993, Marlon became a police officer. The syringomyelia
gradually worsened, leading to paralysis in his right leg and other health
problems that prevented him from performing his law enforcement duties. He
retired in 2011.