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The number of wounded service men and women returning home from war grows every day.
Lt. Jay Redman is using his near-death experience on the battlefield to encourage other injured heroes returning home.
Redman was an elite warrior -- a member of the U.S. Navy SEALs fighting in Iraq.
His life changed in 2007 when his team came under fire from a machine gun. Redman was shot twice in the arm.
"We were right at the end of our deployment. We were working in the Anbar province of Iraq," he recalled.
"I was kind of pinned down in the fire, so I got down as low as I could in this dirt in this field and was trying to get my tourniquet on. I was turned, trying to dress that arm wound when I took a round from that right side," Redman said.
"(The bullet) caught me in the face, traveled through my face and took off my nose, took off most of my cheek bone, shattered most of the bones around my eye and shattered my jaw," he continued.
Redman never got the tourniquet on his arm and was bleeding heavily. As he lay dying in the middle of the field, his thoughts turned to his family.
Source: Christian Broadcasting Network