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'No more feeling sorry for me': Amputee firefighter from Texas returns to hometown to tell his story
June 1, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Gary Weiland never will forget the look on his kids’ faces. The Quincy native, now living in Ponder, Texas, and working as a firefighter in nearby Denton, was in a hospital bed in November 2018 after surgeons amputated his left leg below the knee. Complications from knee surgery in 2016 restricted the blood…
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