One Veteran's Journey From Afghanistan To The Paralympics

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.1 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Martha is joined by retired Army Sergeant Dan Rose, as he discusses his upbringing in Wisconsin, what drew him to military service, and talks about his time in Afghanistan where he was paralyzed by a roadside improvised explosive device. Dan explains the recovery process, how the injury impacted his life, and how the Soldier Strong organization helped him and other wounded veterans secure the technology to return to civilian life. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.9	Welcome to The Untold Story podcast.
0:47.5	I'm Martha McCallum, and I'm delighted to have everyone with me today.
0:57.5	And I'm especially happy to be rejoined by Dan Rose, who some of you may remember from interviews that we did in the past.
1:07.0	Dan is a really special person and a veteran and a sergeant who served in the military in Afghanistan.
1:14.9	And he is part of Soldier Strong and their efforts to serve our veterans.
1:19.6	So I want to talk a little bit about Soldier Strong, and then I want to introduce you to Dan,
1:24.5	and I'm going to let him kind of take it away and tell his untold story for us.
1:30.8	But the group Soldier Strong does a lot of amazing work. And we wanted to talk to Dan because it's Veterans Day this week. And we think that this is a wonderful way that people can do
1:38.3	something to give back to our brave, strong veterans. So Soldier Strong is an organization that was founded by Chris Meek,
1:47.3	who was downtown working on the trading floor in Wall Street at Goldman Sachs on September 11th.
1:54.5	And when he saw what happened on September 11th and he saw the responders, the first responders,
2:00.5	he dedicated a chunk of his
2:03.2	future to giving back. And then it extended to giving back to our members of our military as they
2:10.2	went overseas after 9-11. So that's Chris's motivation. And he's just an incredible person who's the driving force behind Soldier Strong.
2:19.4	But what they do is sort of three parts.
2:22.1	They provide revolutionary technology and innovative advancements and educational opportunities to veterans to help better their lives and help us to give back to them through programs.
2:33.7	One is called Strong Minds, which we have profiled on my show.
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