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Wounded veteran wins gold medals at Paralympic Games

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    Anna Kooiman reports from New York

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-- wounded warrior showing the world what he's made out of navy lieutenant lieutenant Bradley Snyder was blinded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan last year.

He is still doing gay things now now he's competing as a swimmer at the London paralympic games and Clinton is joining me now -- lieutenant as one strong guy.

Physically and mentally.

How he certainly his hair so coaches and competitors alike are really in awe of just how fast -- lieutenant Bradley Snyder bounced back after his accident.

Exactly one year ago lieutenant Snyder's last Afghanistan combat tours ended suddenly.

When an IED blasted shrapnel in space and now the blind athlete is turning tragedy into -- winning gold in -- 10400.

Meter freestyle.

At the -- Olympic Games in London.

Thank -- Tennessee offers.

Really got -- -- precedent and I hope you'll take two weeks and found that represented a -- It lieutenant Snyder says while the physical barriers of blindness have been -- to deal wet.

The -- older being sidelined has been hardest he is now fulfilling though his team oriented competitive nature Harris.

By participating in the paralympics -- this quite a transition in life for him as it would be for anybody we should tell people what he did when he served the right -- Snyder was and is somebody who diffused bombs -- An eighty seal team protecting his fellow soldiers.

And following his accident Snyder remained conscious as he waited for -- to reach him.

And stitch him up he recovered at Walter reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC in the blind lieutenant places more value than ever in the words he repeated so often in the navy.

Honor courage and commitment.

You think that you.

Those words don't mean anything and so you really have to sit down and consider what they are and when you go through something like this you start to appreciate.

You know learning those things early on as -- have to find it out on the way.

Clinton and Snyder hopes his story inspires other people with disabilities to do big things which is why we're sharing his story tonight.

And Harris he's also involved in rock climbing and cross that Al -- -- -- if you -- you know a little achiever like into Superman.

Yeah that's great stuff thank you -- it.

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