Diary of a Sergeant
Harold Russell, an American soldier who lost his hands in a training accident, tells the story of his medical rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He talks about how he and his fellow amputees at the hospital were at first hopeless, but then found new hope in the prosthetics and training the Army's medical corps offered to amputees. Russell learns how to put on and use the hooks that replace his hands. He can then do many things that he used to think were impossible. When he gets out of the Army, the college president, William J. Murphy, S.J., welcomes him.