A custom wheelchair with a large embroidered Purple Heart on the back was taken from the driveway of the Holbrook home of an Army veteran who lost both legs in Iraq.
While police searched for the wheelchair, the 28 year old veteran was already doing his best to move on -- emotionally. The veteran, who was nearly killed in the 2008 roadside bomb blast that cost him his legs, depends on the aluminum wheelchair to get around when he's not wearing his prosthetic limbs.
Besides the Purple Heart, the blue wheelchair is decorated with a U.S. Army seal and military stickers. It was specially made for the man at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., said Suffolk Police Det. Lt. Edward Reilly, commander of the Fifth Squad detectives.
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