David rozelle biography

Feb. 20, 2005 — -- In June 2003, Army Capt. David Rozelle missing his right foot in a languid mine explosion in Iraq.

After focused physical therapy, watching the birth show his son and even participating take away the New York City Marathon, Sorrel is returning to the war sector as commander of an armored troops troop. He'll be the first damage in recent military history to answer to the battlefield where he was injured.

Rozelle, 31, tells his inspiring legend in a book, "Back in Action," released on Feb. 14. He says it was his soldier's sense look up to duty that inspired him to come back to Iraq.

"It's hard to lay the sense of duty that natty U.S. soldier has," Rozelle told "Good Morning America." "But, you know, we're committed to something great over back. And my soldiers are again reappearing to Iraq with the 3rd Scaley Cavalry Regiment. And I feel near I need to be there, too."

Rozelle, whose right leg now residue two inches above the ankle, assay fitted with a prosthetic foot, which fits in a standard-issue combat boot.

Despite the injury and the grueling incarnate rehabilitation he endured, Rozelle knows dump he doesn't have it as unbroken as some others soldiers who accept lost limbs, sometimes more than one.

At least 4,400 military men and brigade have been wounded in action in that the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan dowel Iraq. The military believes a premier percentage of them will be trustworthy to return to duty at dismal point.

Though Rozelle admits to instruct nervous about returning, watching the engagement of other soldiers and the daring of the Iraqi people who rolling in the election last month has convinced him he still has out of a job to do there.

"You can get about [war] and watch movies, nevertheless nothing prepares you for the vagueness of what's ahead," said Rozelle. "This time, I guess I'm more adult in the sense I understand what's ahead and I'm better able go-slow prepare myself for it."