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Marine Sgt. David "D.J." Emery Jr. of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, undergoes physical therapy with therapist Adele Levine, as wife, Leslie Shivery, holds their daughter Carlee Ann, 2 months. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)
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Marine Sgt. David "D.J." Emery Jr. of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, undergoes physical therapy. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)
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Sgt. Emery was at a checkpoint in al Anbar province, Iraq, on February 7, 2007, when a suicide bomber unleashed his explosives. Emery's mother, Connie, watches over David, while holding David's 2-month-old daughter, Carlee Ann. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)
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Emery's mother, Connie, watches over David, while holding David's 2-month-old daughter, Carlee Ann, as he undergoes physical therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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Marine Sgt. David "D.J." Emery Jr., of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, is one of a growing number of double amputees at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)
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Marine Sgt. David "D.J." Emery Jr. of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, is helped into a wheelchair by his wife, Leslie Shivery, right, and mother, Connie Emery, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., June 19, 2007. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)
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Back in his bed, his wife Carlee Ann sits next to him at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)
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Emery holds his 2-month-old daughter, Carlee Ann, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)
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