On the mountain, while gliding down the slopes on skis, Staff Sgt. Roberto Flores gets to once again experience the adrenaline rush that he’s always been drawn to.
“You get that sense of freedom and speed that allows you to be, I don’t know, free,” said Flores, an infantryman who was injured in Afghanistan in December 2011. A bullet severed his spinal cord, punctured his right lung, and exited through his right arm. Flores, a remote care Soldier in the Warrior Transition Battalion, received most of his care at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System...
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