DENVER (KDVR) — You never quite know what direction life is going to take you, and Colorado veteran John Reid certainly had no idea his journey would take him from the battlefields of Afghanistan to an elementary school gymnasium.
“The Marine Corps was everything. It was my whole identity. And when I got out, I didn’t know where I was going in life. So, I struggled a lot,” Reid told FOX31.
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Just a few years ago, he was in a war zone. Wounded while on assignment in Afghanistan.
“(The bullet) came in right through here through my forearm. And then came right out through the backside. That was the exit wound right there,” Reid said, pointing to scars on his right arm…