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Mainers Come Together to Help Injured Army Paratrooper Submitted: 10/22/2009
Corinna - Michael Murphy re-inlisted in the Army after 9-11. He deployed to Afghanistan, and he learned first hand, the dangers our military men and women face overseas.

"I was on patrol searching hilltops for rocket launch sites. I stepped off the path just enough to hit a land mine, and it took my right leg off," said Michael Murphy.

He says when he got hit, he was not scared. It was actually a moment of clarity.

"I knew exactly what happened, I knew exactly what happened to me, I just needed to make sure everyone else was ok," remembered Murphy.

"He's just amazing, I mean no matter what knocks him down, he just gets back up," said his wife, Jodi Murphy.

Things have changed for Michael Murphy since returning from battle. For instance, he no longer can take a shower like he used to.

" He takes his leg off in the bedroom and literally hops his way in to the bathroom and quite literally swings himself into the shower from the top bars, and it's really scary. I mean one of these days he is going to miss, and BAM!" said Jodi Murphy.

The Murphy's won't have to be worried much longer, though. Thanks to Operation Homefront, a non-profit providing emergency and morale assistance to troops and their families, the Murphy's are getting a new bathroom.

"It's relieving. Very relieving. It's taken a while, but just to get going, it's a relief. It means it can't stop. So it's going to be done, and it makes my life ten times easier," said Michael Murphy.

The New England Council of Carpenters is donating much of the work for the project. And Michael and Jodi say they can't wait for their house to be a home they can both easily use again. For more information on Operation Homefront log on to www.operationhomefront.net and www.homefrontonline.com


Story By: Carolyn Callahan

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