Earlier this month Jon Stewart delivered powerful testimony on Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to approve health care funding for 9/11 first responders and other victims of the attacks. Now the former host of “The Daily Show” is putting a spotlight on another deserving category: wounded service members
This week Stewart is serving as the host and MC of the 2019 Department of Defense Warrior Games in Tampa, Fla., where about 300 wounded, ill or injured active-duty and veteran athletes from the United States, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are competing in 14 adaptive sports.
“What you see here, all these folks that don’t allow their worst day to define them,” Stewart told Yahoo News, “it’s just incredible.”“When you’re in the military, look, it’s a very small percentage of our society, so it’s already somewhat isolated,” he said. “Then you get hurt. Now you’re isolated from your unit, your platoon, your family. And now, all of a sudden, you find a community that’s experiencing the exact same thing.
“I didn’t come to the realization of it, uh, until a couple months later, ’cause I was just on the pain medication,” Dunn said. “After I was done with all my rehab, that first probably couple months, I started to kinda realize that, you know, this was gonna be a forever thing. This was, this was how it was, this is how it was gonna be, you know, for the rest of my life.”
“I didn’t know what exactly I was gonna be capable of after my injury,” Dunn said. “It kinda opened my eyes that I can do a lot of things still.”
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