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GI who lost legs to bomb comes home to Holbrook

Published: May 16, 2009 3:03 PM
By MARTIN C. EVANS martin.evans@newsday.com

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At Walter Reed Army Medical Center, physical therapist

Cpl. Christopher Levi

He arrived at his Holbrook home Saturday via a parade that swept him there from Long Island MacArthur Airport, a smiling soldier who waved from a vintage Jeep and who was mobbed by thousands of neighbors, friends and total strangers.

Army Cpl. Christopher Levi, who promised that he would learn to walk again after losing both legs in a Baghdad bomb attack last year, climbed from the Jeep on...

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