Larry Weinberg stepped on a land mine while on a U.S. Army reconnaissance patrol in the Vosges Mountains of eastern France in November 1944. The explosion, he said later, seemed to send him spiraling “down into black.” Bayoneted by a German soldier, he lay on the ground more than 13 hours before being rescued.
A new medication, penicillin, saved him from losing a leg to infection. He needed surgeries and 11 months of rehabilitation back home to regain his mobility.
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