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VAIL, CO - JANUARY 30: War wounded Nate Hunt is strapped in to a mono-ski before heading up the slope with adaptive ski instructions on January 30, 2010 in Vail, Colorado. Hunt was a U.S. Army combat engineer clearing roadside bombs in Iraq when insurgents attacked his vehicle with explosives, and he lost both legs. He was part of a group of a dozen war wounded and their families participating in the Vail Veterans Program winter ski retreat. The program is designed to help recently severely wounded U.S. military forces rehabilitate and rebuild confidence through learning to ski and snowboard. Some of the wounded are flown in directly from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The visits to the Rocky Mountain retreat have been incorporated into Walter Reed's rehabilitation program for troops who have suffered from traumatic injuries, including amputations, brain damage and other severe wounds, most of which sustained in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. John Moore/Getty Images/AFP== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
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Vail, Colorado, UNITED STATES |
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30 Ianuarie 2010 |
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