Carlos Leon has never hung his head or even thought about feeling sorry for himself.
The 27-year old Paralympian shot put and discus athlete is a former U.S. Marine, but it wasn’t an injury in the line of duty that forced him to relearn how to use his limbs. After a successful tour in Iraq in 2005, Carlos returned to the United States. Visiting Hawaii’s Ala Moana Beach Park in Waikiki, he suffered a blow to the head in a diving accident that paralyzed him from the neck down.
“I was lucky because I had great support from the beginning, which helped keep me from ever being depressed,” Carlos said. “It was a tough pill to swallow at age 20 and because I was a Marine, which makes you part of an elite group, you think that you’re invincible and then you find out otherwise. But, because I
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