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Watch wounded Kansas marine take his first steps

August 05, 2011|By Dave Roberts | KWCH 12 Eyewitness News

(WICHITA, Kan.) — Marine Sergeant Jonathon Blank took his first steps Friday. 

After losing both legs in Afghanistan, he's been in rehibilitation at a military hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

New prosthetic legs were specially fitted to him, and for the last few months, he's been training himself to walk on them. Friday, he walked on both of them and a friend captured the moment on a cell phone.

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