Finalist - 2005 Pulitzer Prize - Feature Photography 1st Place - 2005 Newspaper Photographer of the Year - National Press Photographers Association 1st Place - Feature Picture Story - Pictures of the Year International 1st Place - 2005 Minnesota Photographer of the Year
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Jessica Clements, 27, was
given less than 2% chance of survival. She is one of
12,000+ U.S. soldiers wounded (more than 1,600 have
been killed) in the Iraq War. Clements, a former model
and massage therapist, was critically injured outside
Baghdad when a roadside bomb exploded beneath her
convoy sending shrapnel into the right side of her
brain.
Clements beat the odds with courage and character.
Behold her life-affirming, miraculous recovery...