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The nation in brief

Posted: November 1, 2009 at 6:51 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I immediately reached down — up, really, since I was upside down — for my legs. I could tell they were gone.” Lt. Dan Berschinski, a Stryker brigade platoon leader from Peach Tree City, Ga., who lost his legs after stepping on a bomb in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province

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Front Section, Pages 7 on 11/01/2009

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