Red Shirt Friday: A story about Honor Courage Commitment

You may not have this in any TV news. With red shirt Friday I’ve was browsing twitter, facebook and the web to find a hero’s story Casey Owens.

This Marine enlisted after 9/11 and fought in Iraq. He was wounded while trying to save another Marine. His wounds on the outside was both leg’s partially amputated. Internally, PTSD and TBI

Then on Semptember 21, 2004 as noted in Casey’s sister Lezleigh Kleibrink diary—

"Donn, my stepdad, got a call from Twentynine Palms (Marine base) Tuesday afternoon. A sergeant read him an e-mail that Casey had been injured in an accident, that he had his leg amputated, that he had shrapnel in the neck and was going to be moved to Germany. And that was it."

The healing journey starts.

 A CBS story Watch here explains working unsuccessfully with the bureaucracy of the VA. He attended Bush’s inaugural watch here with his Mother next to him.

 After painful waiting 6 months, he receives the necessary operation to his right leg with the goal to attend college.

Due to his internal injuries college didn’t work out.

In 2008 he testified in front of congress ttestimony at congress

saying the attitude of the government to think it’s the veteran’s duty to fix’s their own problem. This is not right. We as a nation own it to our veteran’s to help in their healing.

 The last few years Casey was an Paralympics skier and marathoner. It seemed all was good.  On October 16^th, Casey lost his battle to PTSD.