With help, Leonard Rugh emerged from Vietnam
Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 14:50
in Psychology & Sociology
A battlefield brain injury left doctors skeptical, but with a wife's persistence and society's support, a soldier fought his way back.In a Vietnamese jungle on Sept. 4, 1969, the stubby bullet of a Russian-made AK-47 ripped into the skull of Army Spc. Leonard Rugh, then 24. It didn't stop until it had torn through his brain's right frontal lobe, powered its way through the right parietal lobe and lodged itself in the dome of his helmet.