Joao Silva completed his first New York City Marathon in less than three hours, camera in hand. A year ago, he was lying in a hospital bed, his legs lost to a land mine.
After finishing off the NYC Marathon, one man proposed to his girlfriend – lucky for him, she said yes. Victor Miguel, from Millington, NJ, dedicated his first NYC Marathon to his late cousin, who died recently in a motorcycle accident.
Bob Wieland, propelled by his arms, finished the 1986 New York City Marathon in about 98 hours. Wieland was declared dead and taken away in a zipped-up body bag in 1969 after stepping on a mortar in Vietnam. But he …
