It wasn’t your typical country music concert when wounded Marine Brandon Rumbaugh hobbled onto the stage in crutches. The Afghanistan veteran took his seat, which was well prepared for him in advance: it was an all-terrain electric wheelchair donated by country music star Toby Keith—a truly special moment for a Marine who almost died in the service of his country.
The Marine described the events following the blast that changed his life in an op-ed to CNN. “When I was laying there, I really didn’t think that I was going to make it,” Rumbaugh wrote. “The Marines that were around me, I’m sure that they didn’t think I was going to make it either.” That was nearly 10 years ago, in 2010, Afghanistan.
