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Mikeworth lost an eye, his nose, and broke every bone in his face when he was attacked by a suicide bomber in 2005 in Iraq.
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Sgt. Mikeworth, the warrior, will tell you he is the same man he was Before The Bomb.
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Sgt. Mikeworth hopes to join an Army unit by summer.
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The Army later recommended he retire - he's classified having an 80 percent disability - but Mikeworth was insistent.
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But Sgt. Mikeworth, the survivor, also knows that no matter how much he heals, he'll forever be defined, in some way, by what happened near Baghdad on April 29,
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Mikeworth is now nearing the end of his surgeries.
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One day the glue wore away and the nose fell off while Mikeworth was napping.
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All along, as UCLA surgeons have tucked and trimmed, adding a bit of cartilage here, a flap of skin there, Mikeworth has yearned to return to the simple routines in life, dreaming of the day when he could:
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Gustafson, his former caseworker, says Mikeworth no longer speaks in a monotone, staring at the floor.
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When Mikeworth had to wear round plastic devices called nasal trumpets _ they act like fake nostrils _ they dubbed it his Pig Nose.
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