Healing Wounds and Bringing Hope

UCLA plastic surgeons donate their services through Operation Mend.

ByABC News
October 3, 2007, 12:34 PM

Oct. 3, 2007 — -- It took Cpl. Aaron Mankin six weeks after his injury in Iraq to finally look at himself in the mirror. What he saw brought him to tears.

"There's this stranger in the mirror that you couldn't imagine in your worst nightmare," he told ABC's Bob Woodruff. "I couldn't help but cry."