Melissa Stockwell considered herself lucky to only lose a leg.
It was April 13, 2004. Stockwell, three weeks after being deployed to Iraq, was a passenger in the back of a Humvee when a roadside bomb detonated under the vehicle. She woke up in a Baghdad emergency room, still in her Army fatigues. But her left leg was gone, amputated above the knee.
Stockwell became the first female soldier to lose a limb in the Iraq War. She made sure that label alone would not define the rest of her life.
Stockwell relearned how to walk.