Fort Leonard Wood gets inspirational visitor Brian Hill Fort Leonard Wood “Never give up; never surrender.” That is the message retired Spc. Justin “JP” Lane had for Soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood this week during his visit as part of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Holistic Outreach and Engagement Campaign. Lane is a Purple Heart recipient, combat veteran and a double amputee who survived the blast from a 200-pound improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in 2011. He is now a musician and an inspirational speaker who promotes post-traumatic growth to combat wounded veterans. “After losing both my legs, one of the things I encourage people to do is remember what the military taught me and taught them; that’s never give up, never surrender,” he said Tuesday after speaking to nearly 200 injured Soldiers assigned to the Fitness Training Unit. “The doctors were telling me I wasn’t going to be able to do a lot of things. For example, use prosthetics because of the burns on my legs, that I wasn’t going to be able to sing ever again because of the damage done to my vocal cords, and a lot of other things — but I never gave up.”