![Colorado Springs, Colorado– Retired Army 1LT and 2006 Beijing Paralympian, Melissa Stockwell, gives a celebratory fist pump after lighting the cauldron opening the 2012 Warrior Games at the Olympic Games Center. Stockwell, who lost her right leg in a 2004 Iraq roadside bomb attack, was an honorary torch bearer along with her counterpart, British Royal Marine Simon Maxwell who suffered a similar loss as a result of an IED in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Army SSG Tracy J. Smith)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130216151059im_/http://aw2.armylive.dodlive.mil/files/2012/05/Blog-photo-2.png)
Colorado Springs, Colorado– Retired Army 1LT and 2006 Beijing Paralympian, Melissa Stockwell, gives a celebratory fist pump after lighting the cauldron opening the 2012 Warrior Games at the Olympic Games Center. Stockwell, who lost her right leg in a 2004 Iraq roadside bomb attack, was an honorary torch bearer along with her counterpart, British Royal Marine Simon Maxwell who suffered a similar loss as a result of an IED in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Army SSG Tracy J. Smith)