Iraq War veteran and Democratic Congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth (R) campaigns for stem cell research with Josh Bowler in Wheaton, Illinois, October 24, 2006. Duckworth was co-piloting a Black Hawk helicopter north of Baghdad on November 12, 2004, when a rocket-propelled grenade struck the cockpit of her aircraft and exploded. Ten days later, when she woke up at Walter Reed Memorial Hospital in Maryland, she learned that the explosion would cost her both legs and had shattered her right arm.
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