Wounded warrior Bobby Henline brings the healing power of humor to others

Wounded warrior comic mines hilarity from horror After severe burns and 45 surgeries, he brings the healing power of humor to others. By Bob Dotson TODAY.com contributor MSN Bobby Henline is the kind of guy who could make the faces on Mount Rushmore grin. He fought on the front lines in Iraq during Desert Storm. After the attacks of Sept. 11, he went back three more times. "I loved my job," Bobby says, "but that last tour was a real blast." It's a one-liner, but the story behind it is no laughing matter. By that point Bobby was an Army staff sergeant and didn't have to go on dangerous missions. Yet he did anyway, riding in a convoy one morning with the 82nd Airborne. "The last thing I remember is drinking coffee and mumbling a prayer to God" as the armored car he was riding led the others out of camp, Bobby recalls. An Iraqi on the terrace of a nearby house watched them go and waited. With his finger on a detonator. "Our Humvee passed over three or four artillery shells buried beneath the road. He set them off. They blasted a hole five feet wide and two feet deep." Everybody in the car was killed except Sgt. Bobby Henline, who stumbled out of the wreck, a human torch. "The man I had replaced in the Humvee came running with a fire extinguisher and put out the flames," he says. "But my skull was burned to the bone." Full story ; http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43112194/ns/today-today_people/t/wounded-warrior-comic-mines-hilarity-horror/