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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 11 > Marine amputee back on the slopes

Marine amputee back on the slopes

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
January 11, 2009

NEWBERG — After losing a leg in Iraq in 2007, Cpl. Garrett Jones told doctors he wanted to have a family and snowboard.

A family. No problem, they said. But snowboarding for an above-the-knee amputee ...

Two years later, 23-year-old Jones, of Newberg, is spinning 360s at Timberline Ski....

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