max rohn with with us at the table. good morning.he said he wanted to make his country proud. we're proud. >> yes. >> thank you. >> we're proud. >> two gold medals. first in the shot put. how did you do? >> i did pretty good. >> but very well. yeah, you won by over two meters. and the the discus by more than 16 meters more than your nearest competitor. fair to say you crushed the competition? >> i believe so. >> what do the games mean to you? >> everything. celebration to a certain point in your recovery process. so this is like a finite point that you could look back on and feel accomplished. >> now you're getting ready for the paralympics. tell me what that means in terms of your training, what you're doing to get ready and how ready do you think you're going to be, mr. max, to go? >> i will be 100% ready. >> i don't doubt it. >> my competition is the best in the world. we have two of the best u.s. throwers. i need to get up to their level which i am at in practice. i need put it together for competition. you saw that at the invict

max rohn is on a reclaim his title atop the invictus medal stand in discus and shotput. >> hopefully can come out and put together a good performance and just outthrow the entire competition. >> reporter: that's a high mark considering he wasn't always much of an athlete. were you a high school athlete? >> i would say i was a bad high school athlete. i went to track and field at the first warrior games. my coach always says you can't teach tall so i was a perfect fit for throwing. >> reporter: meaning you had the size? >> i had the size to be a thrower which was comfortable but also disappointing at the same time because i thought i was a runner and i was very fast. turns out i was very slow. >> reporter: though he once lacked the prowess on the playing field, he set out for a career on the battlefield. >> primarily what our mission was to go into the police stations, look after the iraqi police officers, train them with the help of iraqi police advisers which cops. >> reporter: deployed to iraq in january of 2009, he was seriously wounded by an insurgent thrown grenade just five mon