LITTLETON, Colo. (KDVR) — Richard Hogue gained the kind of perspective in Vietnam you can only learn when you lose something important. In his case, he lost half his left leg.

He'd already survived an explosion that left him with a piece of shrapnel in his head and an attack that left many in his platoon dead. At the end of January 1970, on a nightly ambush near the Ho Bo Woods in the Bình Dương Province northwest of Saigon, he heard and felt an explosion unlike any he'd witnessed in Vietnam.

"And we were setting up for that ambush and one of the guys hit another booby trap. And I was laying on the ground and I looked up and just looked down like I'd literally seen blood squirting from my leg. And I thought I was going to bleed to death. And I looked up and says, Lord, don't let me go th

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