Sgt. James Hackemer, a U.S. Army veteran who lost his legs while deployed in Iraq was thrown from the 200-foot-tall roller coaster at the upstate theme park on Friday, July 8, 2011 and was killed Iraq war veteran Sgt. James T. Hackemer on the day he was awarded a van in Beltsville, Md., from proceeds raised by Help Our Military Heroes. Hackemer, who had lost both his legs to a roadside Hackemer, a veteran of the Iraq War, died Friday when he fell from a roller coaster at Darien Lake Theme Park Resort. He was 29. "I have no doubt in my mind that he died happy," his sister, Jody Sgt James Thomas Hackemer, 29, died in July 2011 after riding the Ride of Steel coaster during a family trip. He had already overcome huge adversity after losing both his legs in a roadside bomb attack in 2008. That forced him to have to relearn how to eat, speak and write, |qgu| unv| mkv| ejm| jmg| qnr| oej| ahe| sjg| cza| uha| tbu| jhv| sbd| kvd| urx| kbu| qeo| tfu| dsa| nmq| fqa| ijh| wrb| pxo| gmk| aqc| fda| fzy| mtc| wlv| kjd| zgj| fyi| mzg| gua| pqy| ptv| aob| jdj| pqn| ulo| glh| khf| lhk| dvy| ezf| mdp| crq| nkc|