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How One Yoga Teacher Found Strength After Her Husband's War Injury

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TIM MOSSHOLDER/UNSPLASH It had been three days since I’d heard from my husband, Charles, a United States Army reservist serving in Iraq, when I got the call.

A tight, unpleasant sensation intensified in my stomach as I picked up the phone. Charles was on the line. Speaking slowly with a shaky voice, he told me he’d been struck by an improvised explosive device during a night mission and had barely survived.

He was in a hospital in Germany and was being prepared for transfer to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. Sixteen years later, after a three-and-a-half-year stay at Walter Reed and more than 60 surgeries, he’s still here.

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