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His arm. >> steve: but, did that did not stop him from wanting to be back in the fight. >> ainsley: another time. despite his injuries, sergeant first class goudie, he deployed again on another combat mission to afghanistan. can you imagine? >> brian: all right. no doubt about it, he is this year's modern warrior recipient. >> april 25th, 2012, we were prepping to go out the following day. we had a, basically insider threat. one of the partner forces had turned on us resulting in multiple casualties. i have a prosthetic right humerus missing deltoid. shoulders biceps, extensive nerve damage in...

♪ take it away. [cheers and applause] >> steve: good evening. can you see me? [laughter] >> ainsley: who gave you this? >> steve: they promised me at the store. major dan rooney gave me this tuxedo, thanks, dan. anyway, thanks for all of you for coming. fighting for our freedom never stops at the battlefield and the impact can last a lifetime. >> ainsley: yeah, more than 53,000 u.s. troops were injured in the past 20 years of war and those are just the physical wounds. >> brian: yep, one of those men is retired u.s. army sergeant first class john goudie, he was nearly killed during insider a...

We think that your life is over. you think that you are not going to have the same quality in life. i had to deal with that sitting in the hospital room by myself with nothing but your thoughts. we start rationalizing and prioritizing things in your life. you set attainable goals. when you build goals like that and you can start meeting them, it takes away the negativity of the healing process. >> sergeant goudie wanted to keep fighting. just a year later he was ready to deploy again. >> when i had come back from walter reed after all the surgeries in 2012 i signed back into work on january of...

Going to be okay. we are going to get through this. we can figure it out. he is the most optimistic person in the world. it can be the smallest thing that you and i take for granted. >> he keeps pushing through even though it's something that is so easy that he has to try really hard to do. >> i watched him in so much pain in the hospital after he got hurt. i never want to see him like that, but i am so proud of him for overcoming that and being able to continue serving his country and i just am beyond proud of him and what he has done. [applause] >> steve: what a story. let's hear it for our ...

Is going to tell you, it's going to be okay, we are going to get through this, we can figure it out. he is the most optimistic person in the world. it can be the smallest thing that you and i take for grantedo he keeps pushing. even though it is something that is so easy, that he has to try really hard to do. i watched him in so much pain in the hospital after he got hurt. i never wanted to see him like that, but overcoming that and being able to continue serving his country, i am just beyond proud of him. [applause] >> what a story. let's hear it for our modern warrior, sergeant john goudie. ...