Article Source: USA Today

Written by - Ray Glier - May 19th, 2009

ATLANTA — Two weeks before he was to begin a cross-country bike ride to benefit soldiers who have suffered catastrophic injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, Matthew Sanchez put a face with a cause. He stood next to Dillon Cannon in the gym at Shepherd Center, and they compared scars on their necks.

Sanchez's scar resembled a closed zipper, a mark of surgery to repair his spinal column after a near-fatal high school football injury Aug. 20, 2004. Cannon showed off the exit wound from a sniper's bullet he took Dec. 29, 2006, in Baqubah, Iraq.

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