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New Softball Team Made Up Of War Amputees (Video)

By Beth Ford Roth / Home Post Blogger

Published January 23, 2012 at 10:25 AM PST

This story was published more than 13 years ago.

The Wounded Warrior Softball Team played its first ever game yesterday in Orange County, California - and won. The team is made up of active-duty troops and veterans who lost a limb in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. The team motto? "Life without a limb is limitless."

Television station CBS2 was at the game yesterday, and put together this report:

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Blogger Beth Ford Roth was born into a military family and has covered issues important to service members and their loved ones for many years. She has worked as a broadcast journalist in both commercial television and public radio.

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