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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Sharon Cohen / The Bulletin
May 25, 2008
The young Marine came back from the war, with his toughest fight ahead of him.
Merlin German waged that battle in the quiet of a Texas hospital, far from the dusty road in Iraq where a bomb exploded, leaving him with burns over 97 percent of his body.
No one expected him to survive. But after....
