Inspirational Story: Heath Calhoun
In honor of the upcoming Paralympics, I’m featuring a Paralympian as this week’s inspirational athlete.
Heath Calhoun is a member of the Paralympic ski team. The 2010 Vancouver Paralympics will be his first Olympic games.
Calhoun joined the military in 1999, and after completing training, was assigned to the 101st Air Division in Iraq. While deployed, he was in a convoy that was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade. He remembers the explosion, but blacked out shortly afterwards. As a result of the attack, he lost both of his legs below the knees. One of his fellow soldiers was killed in the attack.
Calhoun spent nine months at Walter Reed medical center in rehabilitation. He also became involved in sports. In 2008, he decided to train for the Paralympics.
Heath Calhoun has earned several awards, including Ski Race Magazine’s Role model of the year for 2009, and first place in the Super-G event at the US National Championships.
Heath Calhoun is an inspiration, not only because he was willing to sacrifice his legs for his country, but that he was able to move on from his injury.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
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March 6th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Did you create your own blog or did a program do it? Could you please respond? 39
March 7th, 2010 at 2:19 am
I used Wordpress; my hosting site installed it for me. I installed a theme that I downloaded for free, although I had to make a few tweaks to it.
If your technological knowledge is limited and you want to start your own blog, you can use the blogger or Wordpress site for free. This blog cost me about $10 for the domain; me and my husband already pay to host other domains, so the hosting was already paid for.
March 7th, 2010 at 2:23 am
If you have a web site that you’d like to get indexed fast, it helps to have other pages link to it. I also write for Squidoo (Olympic and non-Olympic pages), and I’m gradually switching over my Olympic pages to point to this site’s RSS feed. So I usually get pretty fast spider crawling.
It took about two days for this site to initially be crawled. If you’re just starting out, it may take longer, because you won’t have many good ways to link to your site.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Hi, I can’t understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please? I really want to read your future posts.
March 19th, 2010 at 1:54 am
It’s in the upper right hand corner ;-).