Brain Injury: Combat related – multiple head injuries during combat.

Explanation of Mask: The flag is tattered and torn.  It’s been through a lot but the purpose and intent is still there.  No matter how much a flag is destroyed, it is still a flag.  You can look at it and understand the feeling.  True emotion spills out when you see the flag.  That true emotion is not lessened by the destruction it’s been through.  It’s still me, I am battered and torn but my purpose and my soul have not changed.

My mask represents the voice that was taken away.  The flag shows that I would do it all over again.  It shows sacrifice and pain.  It shows patriotism and true power.  A country divided, but still under the same colors.  It stands for the loss I felt under it.  But most of all it stands for courage.  The courage to go on.  The courage to fight.  To not let what happened break me down.