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Hamilton War Veteran Rows Across Atlantic to Aid Vets
After suffering aches and open wounds during 34 days at sea rowing - sometimes 24 hours straight - a local Bosnian war soldier readies to better his record with a team of fellow veterans.
Rowing a boat gently down a stream, merrily, merrily merrily, makes life seem but a dream. But what about rowing a boat hard across the sea? It’s a question Bosnian war veteran and recent trans-Atlantic rower Bryan Fuller of Hamilton can answer well. Miraculous and painful are two words that figure into his not so simple answer. “It’s kind of a strange story,” said Fuller about how he came to muscle a rowboat from the Canary Islands to Barbados as a member of an eight-man team. It all began on a day like any other at the gym. Like so many in these rough economic times, Fuller was out of a job. Like some, instead of TV, Fuller’s favored diversion was a solid workout. “That day the machine I usually used, and most of the others was taken so …
