Sunday, August 3, 2008

Injured Veterens Hit the Water & Surf

CAMP PENDLETON ---- A thick scar runs from ankle to mid-thigh on Brice Brokaw's left leg.The inch-wide mark is evidence of a surgeon's effort two years ago to harvest a donor blood vein in an effort to save Brokaw's right leg, which was mangled in a motorcycle accident.The transplant worked, but the effort to save Brokaw's right leg failed, and the then-28-year-old Coast Guard fireman became "an