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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2015
From RESILIENCY, Page 1A
remember looking at my wife and telling
her ‘I’m not the man you fell in love with. I
am half of a man so therefore I understand
if you leave me and you go and remarry’…
But she said, ‘I’m here.’” Haynes stood for
the first time in November 2014.
“That led to me regaining feeling back
in my legs where I can stand and where I
can walk, not as good as I’d like, but I’ve
learned through this process that I have
to sit back and be the turtle and allow my
body to heal.”
It was a more than emotional day for
the couple as Haynes, who was initially
diagnosed with paralysis from the waist
down, took his first major steps. On Nov.
26, 2014, Haynes climbed to the top of the
stairs to hug Greene’s wife, Susan Myers,
just as he had promised he would when
she visited him in the intensive care unit.
“She [Myers] was reaching down trying
to give me a hug in the [intensive care unit],
and I was trying so hard but I just couldn’t,
and I made a promise to her by the end of
the year I was going to walk up her stairs
and give her a hug,” Haynes said. “So
when I started to walk up her stairs, my first
thought was I had made a mistake. She had
like 30 stairs,” he said with a laugh. “But I
managed to get to the top of the stairs and
she was right there to greet me with a hug,
and everybody was crying.”
“To watch him take those steps was
very emotional,” Chelsea said. “There are
not even words that can explain it. It just
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made me very happy simply to see him
take those steps because I know that he is
going to walk again.”
It was around this time that Maj. Gen.
Robert Ashley, commanding general, U.S.
Army Intelligence Center of Excellence
and Fort Huachuca, met with Haynes at
Walter Reed National Military Medical
Center and invited him to share his story
with the Soldiers at Fort Huachuca.
“Last November I met Jeremy and I
was actually blown away,” Ashley said.
“We talk about resilience and character
and perseverance, and I saw that exponen-
tially as Jeremy was siting in the bed with
all sorts of hardware coming out of him,
and Chelsea was pregnant at the time.
“I told [Haynes] I would love for you
to come out and see [Greene] be inducted
[into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame
on June 26], but I would really like for you
to speak on resiliency,” Ashley said.
“I just think it’s an inspirational story to back and recover from a tragic incident,”
hear what he has overcome. ... Really, the
takeaway is, there is nothing you can’t get
through. It’s your mental outlook; it’s your
attitude, and the support of your Family.
… I hope everyone goes home tonight and
hugs their kids or their spouse and tells
them that they love them.”
Haynes and his wife only decided three
days prior to the discussion that they were
finally ready to share their story with others.
“It felt very therapeutic being able to
open up,” Haynes said. “It felt as if I was
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able to remove a boulder from my ruck-
sack and it will make the recovery process
easier going forward. I’m grateful that
Major General Ashley opened his doors
to allow us to come here and share our
story. We’re ecstatic to be here at Team
Huachuca.
“I am ecstatic for [the MI] Hall of Fame,”
he added. “Any time we have the opportu-
nity to come to an event to honor my boss,
it’s a feeling of missing him, but I can hear
him in the back of my mind saying, ‘Hey
hang in there. Your story isn’t done.’”
Haynes’story was a powerful reminder of
the importance of resiliency to those in the
audience. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Stephen
Barber, 350G, U.S. Southern Command
Headquarters, said, “I wasn’t sure what we
were coming for. I knew it was some kind
of unit training, but I am absolutely glad I
heard it. It was an amazing story.
“The principles that the Army instills
in you for resiliency is being able to come
Barber said. “Something for me is always
balancing the professional and personal
life. I think it’s critical to always look back was going to crash. I had individuals that
and just remember why you’re serving. It’s
easy to lose sight of that every day when
you put on the uniform but just figure out
what you’re serving for. Whether that’s
friends, Family, kids, your wife, your par-
ents, everybody serves for a particular rea-
son, so from that perspective it was good to
just sit back and reflect on why you serve.”
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Another attendee, Chief Warrant Offi-
cer 2 Emmanuel Carlo, 500th MI Brigade,
said, “I think it was great. A good oppor-
tunity to actually listen to somebody who
has been through some problems like that.
You can take all this resilience training
that we’ve had and apply it to something
as serious as what he went through.”
“One thing I found out is when we don
this uniform we are not wearing this our-
selves,” Haynes said. “It carries a burden
not only to your wife, but to those who
aren’t married that burden is extended
to your mother, brother, sister your best
friend. It’s a shared burden, it’s a shared
responsibility. That’s what I found out dur-
ing this entire recovery process.
“I’ve had my moments when I’ve
wanted to give up, when I wanted the pain
to stop, when it felt like someone was
standing over me with a baseball bat just
pounding on me over and over and over
and nights I begged for sleep,” he said.
“Those are the moments I had to really
dig deep. When I was down at my lowest
moment, I was thinking my whole world
ran back and picked me up, and I’m thank-
ful for it. I still have my moments where I
have to push myself, two hours of physi-
cal therapy every day because I refuse to
allow what occurred to me to become an
excuse for me to not succeed. I won’t quit
— not on myself, not on my wife, not on
my marriage, not on my kids.”
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