Veteran’s find inspiration paddling in the Keys
“Steve Baskis was a 22-year-old U.S. Army infantryman on special assignment working a security detail for a brigadier general in Iraq eight years ago.
Today, the retired specialist is blind, has no sense of smell and qualifies for a hearing aide in his left ear.
The lifelong athlete’s world transformed in a flash while coming back from an assignment in a town north of Baghdad on May 13, 2008. The vehicle in which Baskis was traveling struck a roadside bomb, killing his friend and colleague, Staff Sgt. Victor Cota, 33.”
