Twenty-seven blissful years of Army life later, last Thursday Martin was at the Soldier Readiness Center getting his final check before deploying to Iraq. He says the first moment he knew something was wrong was when he felt a sudden sharp pain in his arm.
“Then when it hit in my arm, I grabbed my arm and I realized, I ain’t never been hit that hard,” he says. “I said, ‘Golly, this hurts.’
“And then I looked at my hand, my hand was just covered in blood, but I was laying on the floor, and the floor was covered with blood, and in mind, I said, ‘I got to get out of this building.”
He is a real patriot, God bless him.