AdvertisementVet Walks On New Legs, With A Little Help From MomOctober 24, 2012Quil LawrencefacebookEmailNick Staback, who lost both of his legs to a bomb in Afghanistan, talks with his mother, Maria Staback, in Scranton, Pa. Maria Staback took a leave of absence from her job to move in with her son while he was recuperating at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, D.C. (NPR)