"Fortunately, once again, his family can claim victory — they survived unhurt!"

Late Wednesday afternoon, a man I consider a friend who has his own remarkable story of triumph over tragedy (he, too, was severely wounded in Iraq) e-mailed me. He works for the Wounded Warrior Project has been in touch with Sgt. Pepper — no small feat, since phones have been knocked out and families are scattered. My friend managed to patch together pieces of the sergeant's story, which has been retold to me.

A remarkable attitude, I thought, from someone who has already lived through so much.

i think people would call this karma for SSGT Peppers wife Heather having an affair for the last 8yrs with a married man. It's amazing how she plays up to the camera as the doting wife when the whole time during and after her pregnacies and her husbands accident she was sleeping with someone else and being a home wrecker... I salute u Heather.. great acting

but...my thoughts are with Jason