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TIL of Rocky Bleier, an NFL football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers who was drafted into the US Army and served in Vietnam. Badly wounded in a leg and foot by a grenade, he needed four years to return to the team’s roster, but became a star and helped the Steelers win four Super Bowls.

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