“Two RPGs came in, back to back. I was on the ground and I saw everyone else laying there. I started screaming.”

The first thing she did right after, was tend to her friend and fellow soldier lying next to her. United States Army Specialist Stephanie Morris then took her Mickey Mouse blanket — a gift she just unwrapped — and swaddled it around her roommate, the one who had just given her the present, to stop her from bleeding.

Morris was the only one to survive the attack.

“How do you push forward when you were the only survivor and the other four were KIA?”

The question Morris asks is one she answered, through grit and immense determination, after three years at Walter Reed Medical Center and countless hours rehabbing to not only survive, but preserve a way of life. Something she was able to do, despite having to hear the news that her leg had to be amputated, months after the deadly grenade attack at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.

Recently, she was surprised by former late night host, standup comedian and current TODAY Show contributor Jay Leno, for a lovely drive in a convertible along the Potomac River in Virginia — and a visit to George Washington’s estate, Mount Vernon.

And that’s certainly not all.