Sun series: Sports and the military

Project assists wounded vets

The Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project is a partnership between Disabled Sports USA and the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit organization that helps injured combat veterans and tries to raise awareness about the difficulties troops face when they return home. Representatives from the Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project visit soldiers around the country in facilities such as Walter Reed Army Medical Center, often just weeks after the soldiers arrive, and encourage them to use sports as part of their physical and emotional rehabilitation.

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Sacrificing all

Some starred on their high school athletic teams. Some barely received any playing time. But each served his country and died in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Moudry: ever the runner, even in Iraq

Staff Sgt. Christopher Moudry loved to run. But there's not much room in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, so Moudry liked to stretch his legs when he emerged from his tank.

Stoddard was always driven to compete

Fearless. Focused. Driven.

From swim team to Navy

The Navy Seal wannabes didn't notice him at first -- the quiet, dark-haired man scaling the diving tower at their training tank in San Diego. He wasn't part of the SEALs' elite group, so how good an athlete could Austin Koth be?

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The lacrosse stick

As a youngster, Damion Campbell and his lacrosse stick were inseparable. He took it everywhere in his Northwest Baltimore neighborhood - to the library, to the store and to Garrison Middle School. Once, he tried to sleep with it under his pillow.

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Away games

The northern edge of Fallujah, Iraq, was no place to be on Thanksgiving Day 2004.

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Playing field to battlefield

Running has always been an integral part of Kevin Diggs' life, from a childhood accident in which he tripped, knocked his head against the corner of a table and earned an inch-long scar beneath his left eye to a high school career in track and cross country for Southwestern High.

Painful rites of passage

When a grenade came rolling at Rocky Bleier during a fierce enemy assault at the height of the Vietnam War, his football instincts took over.