'Miracle Man' Marine dies [View All]

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Newsday.com
'Miracle Man' Marine dies
BY MATTHEW CHAYES

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1:56 PM EDT, May 1, 2008

At the military hospital where he was being treated for burns covering more
than 97 percent of his body, Sgt. Merlin German was known as the "Miracle
Man," according to news reports.

When German, of Manhattan, suffered major injuries in 2005 from a roadside
bomb that exploded in Iraq's Al Anbar province, doctors gave him virtually
no chance of surviving, the San Antonio Express-News reported. But he seemed
to be doing better, receiving skin graft surgeries and mentoring newly
wounded military personnel.

But last month, the doctors' grim initial prognosis from more than three
years ago proved ultimately accurate. The Pentagon announced his death
Thursday.
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