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"It's been a long process, but you just keep going," said White, 38, who is one of 41 wounded soldiers or veterans in Edmond this week trying to be selected for the U.S. Army's sitting volleyball team during a weeklong clinic at the University of Central Oklahoma's Wellness Center.
Coaches and members of the U.S. Paralympic Sitting Volleyball team were teaching the game to the soldiers and will select 12 of them to represent the Army in the 2012 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo., the equivalent of the Olympics for wounded service members.
Teams from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines and Special Operations Command compete against each other in seven sports. The Warrior Games are part of the Wounded Warrior Program, which helps severely injured or ill soldiers transition into their new life circumstances.
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Sports can play a huge role in the successful transition, Langer said.
"The main point is for these soldiers to take up an adaptive sport and to realize they can get off the couch and they don't have to play the X-Box all the time," he said. "They can do something else."
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"The more I did it, the more I liked it," he said. "Now, I come to these things all the time. I try to push other soldiers to do these. I have been all over the country doing sports. I was in San Antonio three weeks ago trying to play sled hockey."
At last year's Warrior Games, White competed in archery, tossed the shot put and was a member of the U.S. Army's Sitting Volleyball team.
Without help from the Army's Warrior Transition Command, White is convinced he would be a different person today.
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"I got out of the truck to check on everybody," White said.Buy these canadagoosejackets on line. "As I was pulling one guy out of the truck, another went off and it blew him and me sideways."
White suffered multiple injuries to his back, neck and legs. He's been through seven surgeries and had to have both his knee and ankle rebuilt.canadagoosesalecheap English dubbed anime online.
"It's been a long process, but you just keep going," said White, 38, who is one of 41 wounded soldiers or veterans in Edmond this week trying to be selected for the U.S. Army's sitting volleyball team during a weeklong clinic at the University of Central Oklahoma's Wellness Center.
Coaches and members of the U.S. Paralympic Sitting Volleyball team were teaching the game to the soldiers and will select 12 of them to represent the Army in the 2012 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo., the equivalent of the Olympics for wounded service members.
Teams from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines and Special Operations Command compete against each other in seven sports. The Warrior Games are part of the Wounded Warrior Program, which helps severely injured or ill soldiers transition into their new life circumstances.
"It's adapting to their new life the way it is," said Erich Langer, public affairs officer for the U.S. Army's Warrior Transition Command. "A lot of them call it their new normal. That's the way it is."
Sports can play a huge role in the successful transition, Langer said.
"The main point is for these soldiers to take up an adaptive sport and to realize they can get off the couch and they don't have to play the X-Box all the time," he said. "They can do something else."
White, who starred in eight-man football and track and field at Waukomis, was in a wheelchair at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., when he was first approached by the Wounded Warrior program about returning to a life of sports. He wasn't receptive at first,With the boom of guess ralphlaurensweater boutiques, convinced that he couldn't lead a normal life again.
"I didn't want to talk to anybody," White said. "I didn't want to see anybody.replicauhrenwatches are watches designed to look exactly like the originals."
The Army kept encouraging him and persuaded him to start participating in athletics.
"The more I did it, the more I liked it," he said. "Now, I come to these things all the time. I try to push other soldiers to do these. I have been all over the country doing sports. I was in San Antonio three weeks ago trying to play sled hockey."
At last year's Warrior Games, White competed in archery, tossed the shot put and was a member of the U.S. Army's Sitting Volleyball team.
Without help from the Army's Warrior Transition Command, White is convinced he would be a different person today.
"I would be a drunk in a hole somewhere," he said. "There is no doubt in my mind. Because that is where I was when they grabbed me."
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