Staff Sgt. Lawrence Jefferson remembers the morning of November, 2008 in Afghanistan, when “the whole world just went crazy." It was 7:30, and he was in a line of Humvees headed to the airport as the security escort for an U.S. official when a suicide bomber hit his humvee.
“It was like being hit with a sledge hammer and a shockwave. Stuff flew everywhere. Things turned to chaos. I could not see anything due to the smoke, dust and whatever else. I (had) tunnel vision.The entire left side of my body was numb from the concussion. I remember trying to hang on to get us to safety. I must have p
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