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Date Added: August 21, 2008 08:40:04 AM
AFTER A MORTAR blast left Mark Mix paralyzed from the waist down on the streets of Baghdad, wake boarding was the last place this Navy Seabee figured he'd discover the freedom he fought to defend. Today Mix will board an adaptive wake board and flip, twist and turn his way across Little Squam Lake as one of eight soldiers visiting the Granite State this weekend for a Wounded Warriors Disabled ...

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