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Hometown Embraces Injured Soldier

Sep-18-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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By Keith Eldridge

LEWIS COUNTY - A huge fundraising effort is underway to help Trevor Phillips from the town of Onalaska.

Phillips told us from his hospital room near Washington, D.C., "and all of a sudden just 'boom' the loudest thing I've ever heard in my life."

Phillips recalls the moment an explosion ripped through his Army Stryker vehicle in Iraq.


"My goggles shattered and the smell of flesh and metal burning and I was like 'oh man, we got hit.' I looked down and I saw my hand hanging there from a tendon."

His arm was lost. Right now he's recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical with his wife and two young daughters by his side.

Back home in Onalaska, Sandy Catron heard about what happened and just had to do something. As if she doesn't have enough to worry about one son, Aric, just back from Iraq and another one, Caleb, there now.

"And having two sons in the military and knowing that it could be either one of them, it was just like I was going to be his mom and I need to help take care of him," she says. [...]


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