When a roadside bomb exploded.

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When a roadside bomb exploded under his vehicle in Iraq in 2009, Army Specialist Brendan Marrocco, then 22, barely survived, losing all four limbs. Now, after nearly four years of using prosthetic arms and legs, he has two real arms again. Marrocco underwent a 13-hour double-arm transplant in December at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Though it will take time for his nerves to regenerate, doctors are hopeful that intensive therapy will enable the young...