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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)

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)

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