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Daniel Riley (@dcwriley) doesn’t feel disabled — at least not when he’s running a marathon, surfing, skydiving, skiing or riding a mountain bike. But he is a double amputee. Daniel lost both legs as a 25-year-old Marine, in a bomb blast in Afghanistan. “My generation of veterans struggles with being heard. I deployed to combat twice, but that’s not unique. I have many friends who served two, three — and even seven deployments,” Daniel says, explaining that he had served one tour in Iraq when he volunteered to go to Helmand province to join one of the infantry units that had lost troops as combat intensified.

After more than 20 surgeries, sports — and the freedom of being outdoors and active — became a critical part of Daniel’s recovery. “Waking up in a hospital bed and looking down at bandaged bloody stumps, it was easy to say my life was over. However, trying — even when failing miserably — all these sports has led me to do more than I had ever done with legs,” he says. Now a 30-year-old college student in Colorado, he has a request on behalf of himself and other veterans. “None of this was done for fame and glory, and we would do it all over again. All we ask is that you don’t forget about us.”
Photo by @dcwriley

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