United States, Officer January 19, 1931 – July, 25, 2006.
Carl Maxie Brashear was a highly decorated United States Navy Sailor. He was a U.S. Navy Master Diver, rising to the position in 1970 having an amputated left leg. The film Men of Honor was based on his life.
Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay. In that year, if I had gone to sick bay, they would have written me up. I didn't go to sick bay. I'd go somewhere and hide and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it--an old remedy. Then I'd get up the next morning and run.
It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down
I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream.
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