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Merlin German poses with actress Elisabeth Rohm at a Brooke Army Medical Center holiday ball on December 8, 2006 in San Antonio, Texas. German burned 97% of his body after an improvised explosive device hit his convoy during a tour in Iraq.

I wonder what the two of them were thinking at the moment this image was made, and again what they were thinking later that evening, after they had parted ways from this photo-op.

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