"My leg is gone. There is nothing I can do about it. Why spend the time feeling sorry for myself."  Staff Sgt. Daniel Metzdorf.

Metzdorf lost his leg during a roadside bombing in Iraq that killed three soldiers. "There were pieces of my leg on the road like meat," Metzdorf Said.  "I remember praying,'Come on, Lord; I thought I was suppose to pass out."

Amputees have to be able to do some  things for themselves, like retrieve items from under a table. "I couldn't do this when I first started, I was in so much pain."

During physical therapy Metzdorf gets hounded in a playful and sadistic way by physical therapist 1st. Lt. Justin LaFerrier.

Metzdorf and the other patients of Ward 57 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center cook for themselves in order to get use to doing it when they leave for home. Metzdorf will be fitted with a C-Leg, which is a prosthetic knee design for lower limb amputees. It has on board sensor technology, which reads the individuals every move by measuring forces at the ankle and angle of the knee 50 times a second.

When those who have lost a single limb start to feel sorry for themselves, another soldier comes in who lost both arms from the forearms down, was blinded and suffered brain damage from a bomb and needs help with simple things. The soldier is 19.

Metzdorf wants to remain in the army once he leaves Walter Reed.