A Special Visit for Joao Silva's Recovery: Emilio Morenatti Pays a Call – NYTimes.com

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A Special Visit for Joao Silva’s Recovery

Two photojournalists covering Afghanistan have sustained terrible injuries to their lower limbs from explosive devices. They met on Sunday.Who better to counsel one than the other?

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/a-special-visit-for-joao-silvas-recovery/

Emilio Morenatti of The Associated Press, who lost his left foot and part of his left leg in August 2009, visited Joao Silva, a contract photographer for The New York Times, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where Mr. Silva is recovering. He lost both of his legs on Oct. 23 while embedded on a patrol in Kandahar Province.