Even with a traumatic brain injury and loss of hearing, retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Gretchen Evans did not take it sitting down. She found another way to serve others.
A military veteran who served our country for nearly three decades who was injured in Afghanistan and went on to help improve the lives of other injured veterans received one of the military's highest honors.The North Texan received the Purple Heart on Monday for her bravery and her service. The audience was filled with family, friends and fellow service members. For retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Gretchen Evans, service is her way of life.
"A big part of that is Team Unbroken, an athletic team Evans founded that’s made up of adaptive athletes who take on challenges all over the world. "And the reason we do the things we do — we go around, we do crazy races, we just climbed Kilimanjaro — is to show other people like us that something has happened to you. That it doesn't have to define who you are or what you can accomplish," she said.
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