After a second deployment with the 56th Stryker Brigade of the Pennsylvania National Guard when Matt, 26, and Jon, 37, went to Iraq, an enemy grenade injured the youngest of four Gibbons siblings earlier this year.
"I wish I was still there," Matt Gibbons said while recently on leave in Altoona during his recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
While his brother continues active duty in Iraq, Matt travels to Walter Reed for physical therapy on an injured hand and adjusts to life with only one eye. At the end of the month, he will remain at the medical center until a transfer is complete.
After a second deployment with the 56th Stryker Brigade of the Pennsylvania National Guard when Matt, 26, and Jon, 37, went to Iraq, an enemy grenade injured the youngest of four Gibbons siblings earlier this year.
"I wish I was still there," Matt Gibbons said while recently on leave in Altoona during his recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
While his brother continues active duty in Iraq, Matt travels to Walter Reed for physical therapy on an injured hand and adjusts to life with only one eye. At the end of the month, he will remain at the medical center until a transfer is complete.
