who knows them and they are definitely a package deal. joining me now with their amazing story of kindness and joining me now with their amazing story of faith collin smith and ernest green. collin you were gravely injured i met him in a rehab hospital. i knew his face but didn t know who i was. i was like wow what is going on here and he was there learning how to take care of me and do things for me. ernest you have had a long career you have had a long career with children. what moved you to develop this time in your life to someone you never met. i enjoying being able to help
joining me now with their amazing story of kindness and faith collin smith and earnest green. this is really one of the most remarkable amazing stories i have heard in a long time. collin, you were gravely injured, paralyzed in a car accident at 14 not long after earnest came into your life. tell us how that happened. well, i was first time i met him was in rehab hospital. and i knew his face but i didn t know who he was. so i woke up one morning and this 6 2 , 6 3 man is staring at me. i m like wow, what s going on here? and he was there learning how to take care of me and do things for me. so earnest, you have had a long career you have a family of your own two children. what moved to you want to devote some much of your life to someone you had never met. i think pretty much all of my life my main enjoyment has come from being able to help us. collin is the latest of a number of kids through the
i have a very simple definition for what ptsd is. it s a normal reaction to a screwed up situation. how many of these men and women saw people die? maybe they had to kill somebody. maybe they were in multiple roadside bomb explosions. honestly i have seen more lives destroyed because of ptsd than i have from missing limbs or physical injuries burns like mine. it was right at the beginning of the war. we didn t talk about ptsd back then. i just felt crazy and i didn t want to feel anything. my first coping mechanism was to use drugs, just numb it. the first time i saw her when she came back was in the hospital. it was a rehab hospital. she looked like she had been beaten up. they were talking about releasing her. i offered her to come and live with me. i thought all she needs is a big hug. come live with me and i can hug you. it doesn t work that way.
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this family. 8-year-old martin richard was killed in the blast, his mother was injured and his sister lost her leg. today, the family released a statement and a new photograph of jane. today marks four months since our family was cowardly attacked for reasons that remain at a loss to understand. while we heal from our physical injuries, the pain still continues, an hour doesn t go by that we don t feel the agony of martin s death, the sweetest moments can become heartbreaking when we are struck and realize that martin would have loved this. but it is not all heartbreak for our family as we make progress on this long and difficult road forward. after three months in the hospital and hundreds of hours of physical therapy, and other work at the rehab hospital, jane was discharged three weeks ago. jane continues to be an