If your cause is so nobel why must you hide your identity? Just wondering?
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Iona Soldier Recovering From Iraq Explosion
> March 2, 2006
>
> An Iona man has returned from Iraq. However, he's back prematurely after a
> roadside bomb exploded on him. It left him with a cracked skull, injured
> eyes and missing an arm.
>
> Every day, images like these are broadcast throughout the world. They tend
> to feel otherworldly, removed - it's only when you meet someone who has
> experienced it first hand that you can be transported, showing you what
> life is like over there.
>
> For Dan Gruber of Iona, he lived that life for six months, until one fall > night -- >
> "It was dark at that point. The moon hadn't come up."
>
> He was out patrolling an 80-mile stretch of road when he saw something
> suspicious in the road.
>
> "It was an intersection that had received a lot of IEDs before," Gruber > said. >
> He went to check out what looked like a rock and then it happened. >
> "I found myself flying through the air and I knew immediately I had been
> hit with a bomb."
>
> The pain wasn't immediate, but his arm was missing.
>
> "My eardrums had been blown out so it wasn't loud. I didn't feel any pain,
> couldn't see at the time. Just knew an IED had gone off and I landed on my
> head and knew my arm was gone."
>
> He's been recovering for months now and still has to return to Walter
> Reed. The pain hasn't stopped.
>
> "Electrical shock, like sticking your finger in a light socket. Sometimes
> just throbbing pain," he described.
>
> And he still feels his missing arm, like it's never left him -- kind of
> like the pride in what the U.S. is doing over in Iraq has never left him. >
> Gruber still plans to be in the Reserves. He would like to see himself as
> a teacher at the base in Utah.
>