Summary: <p>WOUNDED VETERANS AND ADAPTIVE SPORTS: In 1969, Kirk Bauer lost his leg in a grenade explosion in Vietnam. In 2012, Travis Mills lost portions of four limbs from an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan. They join Kojo to talk about adaptive sports and the challenging path of recovery facing today's wounded veterans. (24 min.) THE LITERATURE OF WAR: War is destructive, chaotic and difficult to explain to those who haven't experienced it. The literary tradition of seeking to capture the experience of war is as old as the written word itself. We revisit some classic works that continue to resonate today and consider the emerging hallmarks of fiction about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (26 min.)</p>
