Sgt. Jason Rzepa is pictured Friday with his wife Cassandra and son Collin, 6 months. Rzepa, who lost both legs in an IED explosion in Iraq earlier this year, was awarded the Purple Heart in a ceremony at Red Lion Templin’s Hotel in Post Falls Friday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

A military rehabilitation center in Texas has lent Staff Sgt. Jason Rzepa some perspective. As he continues to recover from injuries he sustained in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq last July, Rzepa, of Coeur d’Alene, said he sees fellow soldiers missing entire legs and arms. Soldiers scarred by severe burns. Soldiers who go home to an empty apartment and spend evenings alone watching television. “I’m blessed, really,” Rzepa said Friday afternoon. “I have both knees and a wife and son with me down there. … That in itself makes all the difference”/Daniel Person, SR. More here.

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