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marine sergeant gabe martinez joins me here in boston. as i said this morning, thank you for your service. really appreciate it. thank you for your heroics now helping with the people like the corcorans. we saw just a three-minute youtube clip. tell us what it was like to experience that. what did you tell them and how are they doing? that was three minutes ago. probably a long, lengthy hour of a visit with them. i went in with other heroes and we just went in there and basically just coped with them. and told them everything will be all right. and being that i have the same injuries as the mother celeste it really hit home and i was able to kind of relate to her on a personal level and just give her that hope. you know, everybody can say you ll be okay but it really hits home when somebody can really relate. when i look at you and i think oh, yeah. he doesn t have his legs but you seem to be doing pretty well. not too shabby. i could see that being reassuring. tell me what s
that he may have saved countless other lives. we now believe that the two brothers would have gone to new york, perhaps set another bomb in times square. who knows how many lives would have been lost. jake tapper. a remarkable story. 14 of the boston marathon bombing victims have had to undergo the trauma both physical and psychological of losing at least one limb. few of us can really understand what that s like so enter marine sergeant gabe martinez who lost both legs after stepping on an ied in afghanistan on thanksgiving day, 2010. he came to boston to deliver a message of hope to victims of the terrorist attack like celeste and sidney corcoran. i can t do anything right now. right now, yes. but i m telling you, with all my heart, you are going to be more independent, you know, than you ever were. i m so glad to hear that.