Right Hand Man

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A nice moving story for Monday morning, er, afternoon: TIME reporter Michael Weisskopf was traveling through Baghdad in a Humvee when someone threw a grenade inside the vehicle. Weisskopf grabbed the grenade and threw it out of the truck, but was a little too late. Though he saved the lives of the soldiers he was reporting on, he lost his hand. He became the first reporter treated at the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center. Read the story here