This week’s VegasVille Photo of the Week rolled into play on the tarmac at McCarran International Airport as a group of 50 or so Wounded Warriors touched down for a spirit-lifting weekend in Las Vegas. Greeting them were USO Celebrity Circle Chairman Wayne Newton and USO Las Vegas Center Director Doug Bradford.
During the mid-afternoon parade of servicemen and servicewomen, one wounded soldier pushed his way across the tarmac in a uniquely decorated wheelchair and stopped for this week’s VegasVille Photo of the Week:
When: Friday, Nov. 11, 3:30 p.m.
Where: The tarmac at McCarran International Airport.
The Circumstance: The young man making his way from the American Airlines Flagship Liberty aircraft to shuttles awaiting a trip to the Strip is Sergio Cano. The 22-year-old Army soldier was wounded in his left foot and right arm while serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. The stickers on the chair tell the story, as do Cano’s splinted limbs. When asked where he was from, he said, “Walter Reed, now,” in reference to the recently closed military medical facility in Bethesda, Md. He’s actually from Connecticut, visiting Las Vegas for the first time as an adult. Of his visit, he said, “I am all jacked up!” Then he left, on a roll, and you could only salute him and the friends we cannot honor enough.
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