It’s been a long road to recovery, but the 24-year-old Marine is back in his hometown.
FOLSOM, Calif. - A Marine critically injured in a suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport received a hero’s welcome in his hometown after months spent recovering.
“It’s cool to see that there’s other people who care. There’s other patriotic Americans in the country. I think I probably got letters or phone calls from just about every state in the U.S.,” Vargas-Andrews said. “I was in a giant cast with a foam block around it, and I just couldn’t move. I think that was a hard thing for me, just being stuck,” he said.
While Vargas-Andrews heals his body, others have to heal their minds. His family is now pushing for more mental health support for military members.
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