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Wounded warrior gets double-arm transplant

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    Doctors' efforts to help quadruple amputee

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An amazing story of just how far medical science has come in repairing the best and bravest of Americans.

National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin looks at a horribly wounded warrior.

And how doctors are trying to put him back together.

Brendan Morocco was a private first class when he hit a roadside bomb in Iraq and lost all four of his limbs today he has two new arms and two new reasons to smile pretty much narrow section of my -- -- -- -- -- -- -- I can rotate a little bit the 26 year old from Staten Island became the war's first quadruple amputee.

Now he is the first soldier to receive a double arm transplant last month at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.

A team of the nation's top positions was able to attach donor arms to this wounded soldier that should one day be fully functional.

It feels amazing.

It's something that I was -- I was waiting for for a long time.

And now they finally happened that day.

I really don't know what to say -- it's just such big thing from my life and it's.

Just fantastic Fox News first met Brendan Morocco last summer when the tunnel to towers foundation built -- a new home.

-- home that was damaged by hurricanes can be but is now being rebuilt today he described what he has missed most driving.

Absolutely.

Driving.

I used to love to drive and -- -- -- is.

It was a lot of fun for me what my goals is definitely it and cycle marathon itself.

Yes so I would.

-- to get back to that I think you'll be able to try and throw a football I don't know how.

How if you'll be getting -- sixty yard runs down like Joseph Flacco has ever -- do against the Broncos the you know but I suspect he'll he'll get there but I don't think there's really much that we're going to be able to keep him from doing but it will take a little while.

Because that -- you -- generate at the Mac.

Small speed -- one inch per month.

-- -- will continue for a few years for his mother was in church on Easter Sunday for years ago when she learned her son was injured.

And now he will be independent and when he comes home.

-- be that Brendan.

-- and -- -- he was released from Johns Hopkins today.

You know he's hard headed stubborn he likes to do things his way that's what's gotten him where he is now I've always since I got her.

I still thought of myself as being normal.

I hated the -- and -- -- Soon he'll be able to -- and Susan if he wants even use chopsticks according to his doctors Brett.

Jennifer thank you fantastic story and we wish -- well.

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