As Jaco van Gass lay in his hospital bed, he knew he had a choice to make. Anguished since losing his left arm to a Taliban bomb blast, which nearly cost him his life, while serving in Afghanistan, the young soldier knew he was at a crossroads.
If he was unable to adapt to the new reality facing him, then he could not see a way out. Lying in the darkness, in pain, he resolved to fight on.
“I remember just how sad, depressed, anxious I was,” Jaco says. “I had all these emotions and I started asking all these very, very difficult questions. I was overwrought with all these emotions.
