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Fishing with Falcons

By Melanie Jarrett
ESPNOutdoors.com

Thursday, May 28, 2009

ATLANTA — For injured soldiers, it's a therapeutic getaway; for NFL players, it's an eye-opener. It was an outing of wounded members of the U.S. Armed Forces from the VA Medical Center in Augusta, Ga., and a close look at the occupants of the pontoon boat as it cruised Lake Lanier showed this was no ordinary fishing excursion. On deck was a woman in her 20s in a neon green wheelchair. Alongside her, dreadlocks tied back with a rubber band, stood an athletic man wearing a faded red and g ...

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