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A Backpack Journalist

Hands on Scholastic Journalism for youth!

A Backpack Journalist

Hands on Scholastic Journalism for youth!

A Backpack Journalist

What are you capable of? Read on – from the Army Ten Miler Expo

You don’t know what you are capable of until….

Fifty people crowded close around CPT Ivan Castro and his interviewer as Castro told the story that changed his life, his face, and his understanding of what he was capable of.

Castro was deployed to Iraq when his fateful accident occurred. This accident, in September of 2006, would permanently blind him by taking away completely one of his eyes, and losing sight in the other. While home, Castro lay in bed – and that was all he did. He lost so much muscle, and gained so much fat during this time that he had forgotten how to walk. So why then, was he registering for the Army Ten Miler?

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What are you capable of? Read on – from the Army Ten Miler Expo