Claim: Prayers are requested for Tony Mullis, a 20-year-old soldier who lost his legs while serving in Afghanistan.
TRUE
Example: [Collected via e-mail, April 2011]
PRAYER CHAIN FOR THIS FAMILY — Tony Mullis is a
Origins: This prayer request is true in its essential details:
[According to his mother,] Mullis and members of the 2nd Combat Engineering Battalion, Alpha Company, from Camp Lejeune, N.C., came under attack [and] he was "hit with" an improvised explosive device, or homemade bomb, she said, but details were still sketchy. [She] said her son's injuries resulted in amputations on both of his As he was being transferred through a chain of military hospitals on his way to a base in Germany, Mullis, who turns 21 next weekend, talked a nurse into giving him her
Cpl. Tony Mullis, 20, a Marine for two and a half years since he joined fresh out of Hawkinsville High School at age 17, was serving his second tour of duty in the Middle East. He'd arrived there late [in March 2011].
Last updated: 11 April 2011
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Kovac, Joe. "Hawkinsville Marine Loses Both Legs Day After Wife Gives Birth." The [Macon] Sun-News 9 April 2011.