My cousin's battalion helped build a bridge between Kirkuk and Baghdad. Here's the link I'm sorry, but the kid in me has been holding this in for a really long time...GI JOE A Real American Hero!
In 1986, doctors discovered that my Kidneys were failing, they gradually got worse until September 25, 2000 when my mother donated a kidney.
After the transplant, I felt like I needed to prove something to myself, so I took a bicycle tour(PACTour) across the US. I've competed at the US and the World Transplant Games as well as in Ultra distance events. My transplant will likely fail in the next couple of months and I'm currently preparing to go on dialysis.