Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills promised his wife his third tour of duty in Afghanistan would be his last. And it was, for all the wrong reasons.
A bomb exploded, turning Travis into a quadruple amputee.
Now, with the help of artificial limbs, he walks, runs, dances... and generally lives as normal a life as possible.
He tells his recovery story with writer Marcus Brotherton in the book .
We welcome SSG Travis Mills to the Exchange. This is another of several Veteran-related interviews in a joint project between JPR and Southern Oregon Public TV called
The project culminates in the TV airing of Ric Burns' "Debt of Honor" with a companion "Local Focus" program--think The Exchange on TV--immediately following, Tuesday November 10th.