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Source: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-718922
Seriously Wounded IDF Veterans Tour U.S. College Campuses
(Jerusalem Post) Zvika Klein - In September, Dana Ophir and Matan Rutger, former IDF soldiers that were seriously wounded during their army service, toured close to a dozen colleges on the East Coast, sharing their personal stories with hundreds of students. Rutger was run over by a Palestinian terrorist. He required multiple surgeries and spent months in intensive rehabilitation. Ophir was injured in a car-ramming that left four of her friends dead. She said, "I became a total invalid, but I refused to succumb to fate and with titanium instead of bones in my body, taught myself to take one baby step at a time." "I see young people who are open to hearing us," Rutger said. "When they hear what I went through, they identify and connect. They understand that military service is not about aggression or occupation, but about defending my own family and countrymen and that we'd so much rather live in peace than carrying weapons."