'He should apologise': Anger of veterans and relatives at Trump Nato remarks
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BBC Andy Reid has said he believes Donald Trump should apologise for the remarks
Andy Reid had been in Afghanistan for three months when the incident happened that would change his life forever. Out on a routine patrol in the Helmand Province, he stood on a Taliban improvised explosive device, resulting in him losing both legs and an arm. "I was there on the floor on my back, a big dust cloud all around me. I couldn't hear anything," he says. "I wasn't really in any pain at the time, but I felt some numbness throughout my body."
"I knew something bad had happened to me. I looked down and I couldn't see my legs at that stage." He was one of thousands of British troops injured in Afghanistan.
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