Oak Creek Person of the Year: Lt. Brian Murphy
Murphy made headlines around the world when he survived 12 gunshot wounds and helped end an attack at the Oak Creek Sikh temple.
Most days, Brian Murphy feels about a 4 on a 10-point scale. He had another surgery on his throat, where the first bullet hit, about a month ago. Unfortunately, "it didn't take," Murphy said, so surgeons will try more procedures in January to relieve some of the pain and further repair his vocal cords. His thumb still isn't great. Wade Michael Page shot him there soon after he hit him in the throat, knocking Murphy's gun out of his hand in the process. The end of the thumb has often been problematic in the last four months. "There's always something with the thumb," Murphy said. A bullet that hit him in the left leg causes issues that come and go. But of all of the major injuries he suffered in the Sikh temple parking lot on Aug. 5, when …
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Kevin R Martin
11:02 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012
Thank you Lt. Murphy for your heroism, humility and graciousness. more ›