Quadruple amputee vet gets double arm transplant

On Easter Sunday of 2009 in Iraq, his vehicle tripped a roadside bomb that took his limbs, severed his carotid artery and killed his best friend who was a gunner on the vehicle.

Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island, N.Y., poses for a picture at the 9/11 Memorial in New York on July 4, 2012 while he wears a prosthetic arm.

Credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File