Wounded soldier welcomes paratroopers home from Afghanistan
This was the moment 1st Lt. Victor E. Prato had been waiting for.Months after his armored vehicle was targeted by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and weeks into the rehabilitation that he hopes will one day allow him to walk again, Prato looked up from his wheelchair and cheered as more than 250 paratroopers returned to Fort Bragg.The soldiers — from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division — had spent the last seven to nine months in Afghanistan, […]
