Iraq veteran lets the games, and healing, begin

This is a really touching feature article from today's Los Angeles Times. It uses the "blocking" meathod to tell the story and it follows a similar pattern to "Fight! Fight! Fight!" except for using a real "kicker" at the end of each segment, it uses a thought provoking quote... one that really paints a picture for the reader.

The reporting for this article is really well done, and I loved the lead, it was extra ominous:

Reporting from Spokane, Wash. -- Cpl. Anthony Alegre's unit knew the Humvees they drove through the streets of Ramadi, Iraq, were woefully under-armored.

They stuffed sandbags in the doors, but when roadside bombs turned the sand into shrapnel, they began wedging pieces of metal and wood around their seats. No use. The car bomb that hit Alegre's patrol on May 29, 2004, killed three of his fellow Marines and left four pieces of metal in his brain.