Frederick Franks Jr. served in the 11th Armored “Blackhorse” Calvary Regiment in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, where a bomb cost him his left leg below the knee. However, Franks did not give up, and he petitioned to stay in a combat unit — because he believed in himself and in America.
Franks would go on to become a general — the first one-legged general in the US Army since the Civil War — serving in that capacity in the Gulf War.
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