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'I lost my limbs, but I still have my mind:' Airman honored in Hawaii puts things in perspective
 

By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: March 17, 2018

Brian Kolfage was athletic, and depended on his legs to be so.

Living on Oahu from about the seventh grade, the 1999 Kaimuki High graduate surfed all the time. On the mainland he had played hockey. In the Air Force he was a senior airman working in security forces.

Sept. 11, 2004, the third anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, changed all that.

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