Blown Up by the Taliban ... This Moment Is What Got Me Through ; Exclusive Paratrooper Was Hit by Grenade

Liverpool Echo › September 19, 2008

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A PARATROOPER who suffered terrible injuries when he was blown up by the Taliban can hold his daughter again.

Private Brian Spence was so badly hurt by the rocket-propelled grenade which exploded just a few feet away from him, he was too weak to pick up two-year-old Faith.

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Blown Up by the Taliban ... This Moment Is What Got Me Through ; Exclusive Paratrooper Was Hit by Grenade

But he can now hold her in his arms again after undergoing life- saving surgery in an Afghan military hospital and fur...

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