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WASHINGTON — Vietnam veteran John Loosen has been walking with a prosthetic leg for nearly 40 years, but this week was the first time he could step backward or comfortably shift weight from side to side.
"Just wearing this leg for a few hours, I can already tell this is going to be better for me," said the 61-year-old Army veteran who was wounded during a mortar attack in 1968. "Before, just standing, I'd always put my weight on my right side. But now I can feel this [prosthetic] leg responding more. I've got more confidence in it."
