European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 3, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3accident victim inspires student amputee s advice Don t grow old and bitter by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau Heidelberg Germany a Bryan Harrison received a heroes Welcome from students at his Alma mater last week. Harrison has no feet and nine months earlier he held Little Hope. Now with the help of artificial limbs the 20-year-old walked across the Heidelberg High school gymnasium floor at an Assembly Friday to the cheers and standing ovation of 500 students. Just 10 Days after High school graduation last june Harrison was climbing Over a wet Railroad Boxcar when electricity from a High voltage Power line coursed through his body. Harrison a legs were amputated below the knee and one Arm was amputated As a result of the Accident near Tompkins Barracks in Schuetzing in. A it was so humbling a Harrison said of the response he received from students As they watched their special i used to believe in violence and hate now i believe in love a Bryan Harrison Harrison said he received a tremendous amount of support from other patients he came to know during his rehabilitation in san Antonio. A a it a mind boggling just to see some people who Are either worse off than you Are or Are just As bad off As you Are still care about you enough to Tell you that you Are going to make it and give you that support a Harrison said. One Man named Emmett had received Burns Over 95 percent of his body while trying to Rescue his wife and child from their House which had been set ablaze by an arsonist. So deformed was Emmett that Harrison smother Lola described him As a a Skeleton that  a i admit that it took me a while to get used to looking at him he was that deformed a Harrison said. A was first i Felt sorry for him a sense of pity. Then one Day it just occurred to Harrison guest speaker Cross the gym stopping to shake hands and Greet friends along the Way. Although Many of the Young people at the awards Assembly did not know him personally they knew him As a someone who overcame the Odds a Harrison said. A the Odds weren to exactly in my favor a Harrison said a but like i told the Young men and Young women at the school a you have to take the Devil by the horns and not be afraid be  we Veall Given up because it got too rough but the Only thing that giving up is going to give you is you re going to sink into depression grow old and  me. This Guy he a so terribly deformed but yet he a going out and going to the movies with us. And All in a missing is my legs and my Arm and this Guys keeping on keeping on. That a one reason that i done to allow myself to feel sorry for myself because of people like Emmett who Are worse off than i am. To see them do that is just amazing and to do anything less would be a  some would say Harrison could easily grow bitter because along with losing his limbs he lost any Chance of achieving his dream. A military life was Bryan a love a his Mother said. A i mean rangers was it. That was  by graduation the five year Junior Roth Cadet was already bound for Boot Camp. He had volunteered for the infantry airborne school and the rangers. His drive toward being a super Soldier was so evident that last year one of his fellow graduates characterized him As a the most focused person in the school. A i figured if in a going to be a Soldier i should be the Best one i can be a Harrison said. Although Harrison said he still has a a warriors heart and admits that it is a struggle to watch to military recruiting commercials he knows that he was too wrapped up in his dream a year ago. A a in a turn inward and sometimes would become a Little obsessive. Sometimes i had a reputation of being just a Little bit too brutal a he said. A i used to believe in violence and hate now i believe in love a said Harrison who while in the Brooke army medical Center at san Antonious fort Sam Houston was made an honorary member of a Ranger unit in fort Benning a. A and to Tell you the truth i  have it any other Way right now because in be taken a lot of things for granted before my Accident. I took school for granted took my parents and friends for granted. It just did no to feel right but now that even though i done to have All my parts with me it kind of feels better this  a a Bryan a a typical kid. He got obsessed with his dream and there a nothing wrong with that a said Harrison smother who directs the accounting operations for the 266th theater finance come. A god was gracious and gave him Back to me and not Only me but Back to the world and he a going to get on with his  Harrison said he will live with his Mother and Stepfather Leon Johnson until this fall when he plans to go to College in Texas or Illinois and study psychology and child development. A hopefully one Day i can work with either handicapped children or retarded children a those children that need it most a Harrison said. A amps Marian Hamilton Fasching follies Germany a Fasching or carnival season brings some strange characters out of the Woodwork. Jeremy Dick left of Augsburg attracted a lot of people looking for rest at Heidelberg a Vampire Ball on Friday when he came As a walking bed. Joining him at the Fasching costume Ball were Peter Servon also of Augsburg and Sheryl Frink and Rose Shanes both from Fulda. Above straight from Frankfurt were the blues Brothers otherwise known As american Dwayne Beyer englishman a Little John Bolger and Scott Anderson from Scotland. Also on the program at the Sta Thalle was a showing of the Rocky horror picture  Pioneer probed again paper says new York apr. Robert Gallo the american co discoverer of the aids virus is under investigation on suspicion of making false statements in applying for a Patent for the aids test the new York times said monday. The inspector general of the health and human services department the general accounting office and a House subcommittee Are especially interested in Gallons assertion that his work in developing the test for the aids virus owed Little to French scientists the newspaper said citing unidentified officials. The three groups also Are investigating whether senior health and human services officials including or. James Mason assistant Secretary of health knew at the time of Gallons application that his statements were false the newspaper said. Gallo already is under investigation concerning his original discovery of the aids virus. The departments National institutes of health Are looking into the accuracy of a 1984 research paper on the virus and whether scientists at Frances Pasteur Institute were properly credited. That probe was prompted by an investigation by the Chicago Tribune in 1989. The United states and France share the royalties from the aids blood test and have split credit for their discoveries 50-50 under a 1987 agreement. Gallo earns $100,000 a year from the patents As does an american colleague or. Mikulas Popovic. A these Patent investigations will go nowhere i assure you a Gallons lawyer Joseph Onek told the l Imes