BUSH
AT PEACE
His voice trembled. “We went
and bought some bikes, started
riding, and the rest is history.
And that’s what brought us here
this weekend.”
A few minutes earlier, another
veteran had come to tears when
I asked him how he had lost his
right leg below the knee. He told
me the toughest part of his recovery was “crawling across the floor
in front of my kids” soon after
coming home from the hospital.
In a video from last year’s bike
ride, Gade told the story of his
then-3-year-old daughter asking
him to play Legos with her soon after he returned home, when he was
in a wheelchair. He said he couldn