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After dire war injury, all vet can do is laugh
http://www.omaha.com/article/20120506/NEWS01/705069933#after-dire-war-injury-all-vet-can-do-is-laugh
By Matthew Hansen
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Photo: http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=OW&Date=20120506&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=705069933&Ref=AR&maxw=600&maxh=400
A roadside bomb left Bobby Henline burned on more than a third of his body and without a hand.
He just wanted to eat pizza.
But when you are Bobby Henline — a badly wounded Iraq War veteran, a burn victim and now an up-and-coming stand-up comedian — there's no such thing as a normal restaurant experience.
On a recent night, Henline and two other wounded vets dined at the famed San Antonio pizza joint Big Lou's, home of the 42-inch pizza. To exit the restaurant, Henline had to walk out a narrow hallway where dozens of people stood waiting to get in.
From experience, he knew what was coming next: furtive glances. Outright stares. Whispers.
FULL story at link.
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this guy is awesome. 
So Henline, who lived through a roadside bomb that burned more than a third of his body and now is thriving after nearly four dozen surgeries, employed his normal survival technique.
“Whoa!” he yelled to the crowd staring at him. “Watch out in there. That pizza is really, really hot!”
“I got some people to laugh,” he said during a phone interview Friday. “You do that to try to take away the awkwardness ... you have to mess with people to break the ice, let them know everything is OK.”
“Whoa!” he yelled to the crowd staring at him. “Watch out in there. That pizza is really, really hot!”
“I got some people to laugh,” he said during a phone interview Friday. “You do that to try to take away the awkwardness ... you have to mess with people to break the ice, let them know everything is OK.”
