A Special Forces soldier left paralyzed from the neck down after diving into stormy waves off Florida to save a young girl from drowning is determined to walk again.
Sgt. 1st Class Tim Brumit, 32, broke his neck in the tragic July 26 accident, but now the father of two and a Bronze Star recipient is hoping to resume a normal life through his family’s willpower, spiritual faith and the healing hands of his doctors, the Military Times reported Saturday.
“We’re not built to lay down and die,” his father Randy Brumit, a retired Army chief warrant officer who also served in Special Forces, told the newspaper. “When he showed up to the hospital, he was totally paralyzed from the neck down, and expected to remain that way for the rest of his life. That’s what we were told.”
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