With love and grit, he marches on
Jan 31, 2011
In a Vietnamese jungle on Sept. 4, 1969, the stubby bullet of a Russian-made AK-47 ripped into the skull of Army Spc. Leonard Rugh, then 24. It didn’t stop until it had torn through his brain’s right frontal lobe, powered its way through the right parietal lobe and lodged itself in the dome of his helmet. Leonard Rugh is photographed with his wife, Luanna, at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo,...