Jim Kosmo and John Kriesel

Jim Kosmo is a national award-winning journalist, a licensed Mississippi riverboat pilot, and partner of Padelford Riverboat Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a lifelong writer, having learned at the typewriter of his mother, Virginia, who was a correspondent for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in the 1950s. Jim Kosmo partnered with John Kriesel to write Still Standing: The Story of SSG John Kriesel. When SSG John Kriesel lost his legs and two buddies in a roadside bomb explosion, no one expected him to survive. Medical miracles put his body back together, but it was an incredible confluence of angels at every step along the way that breathed life into his shattered body. Still Standing is the story of an ordinary young man who overcame extraordinary challenges with a lot of help from others, including many strangers and he emerged stronger and more in love with his country, his wife, his children, and ultimately, his own life.

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Jim Kosmo and John Kriesel

"No matter what your opinion of the war, you'll be blown away by Kriesel's story. You don't have to have served near Fallujah to know what Kriesel experienced. It's all here--and in mind-blowing detail." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

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