The Importance of Medics: CPT Max Cleland

"’You think I'm going to make it?’ 

And he said, 

‘You just might.’"

Captain Cleland (later Senator Cleland) lost both his legs and an arm from a grenade explosion while serving in Vietnam. In this interview, Cleland describes the explosion and the crucial role that medics played in saving his life.

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