Webb Savors Every Minute of His Moment

[GreatAmerican]

<p>Published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch:</p>

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Michael “Mac” McGarvey was 18 and a radioman for Jim Webb’s Marine Corps rifle platoon in Vietnam when McGarvey’s right arm was sliced off.</p>

<p>“The day the piece of shrapnel ripped his arm away just below the shoulder, a clean swipe like a hot knife that left the arm itself intact at his feet, I cried,” Webb wrote later…

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