Today is Veteran’s Day. Today is a day dedicated to honoring those who have served in the armed forces and fought to protect our country. And, as you might have guessed it, each one of these veterans is an outlier in their own way. Although each one has that something special that makes them extraordinary, one story especially stood out to me. On Easter Sunday in 2009, Brendan Marrocco, 26, was driving a military vehicle in Iraq when it tripped a roadside bomb. The other solider in the vehicle was killed instantly and both of Marrocco’s arms and legs were blown off and his carotid artery in … [Read more...]