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Tribal member survives grenade attack in Iraq


A member of the Fort Belknap Tribes of Montana is recovering in a military hospital after surviving a suicide grenade attack in Iraq.

U.S. Marine Corporal Catcher Cuts The Rope, 32, was clearing a building in Fallujah that had come under attack when a man detonated the grenade. Cuts the Rope and three other Marines were injured.

Cuts the Rope is recovering at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He will be transferred to a military hospital in Hawaii, where he lives with his wife and 11-month-old son.

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Fort Belknap Marine hurt in Iraq recalls harrowing day (The Great Falls Tribune 12/1)