Diary of a Sergeant
Harold Russell, an American soldier who lost his hands in a training accident, recounts his medical rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and how he and his fellow amputees at the hospital found new hope in the prosthetics and training provided by the Army's medical corps. Russell learns to wear and control the hooks that replace his hands, enabling him to execute numerous tasks he previously believed impossible. He is welcomed to Boston College by college president William J. Murphy, S.J., following his discharge from the military.