By Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter

J.R. Martinez competing on the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars really “brings home” the reality of war that “people don’t have an understanding of,” according to a Veterans group, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

The 28-year-old Iraq war vet, who was badly injured after the Humvee he was driving hit a land mine while deployed with the Army in 2003, will be dancing into the hearts of Americans this season on the ballroom competition show.

“I think it is wonderful that he is on the show,” Amy Fairweather, program director for the Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans tells Breaking Celebrity News. “People don’t have an understanding of the war and the impact it has on people’s lives.”

“It will be great for them to see how strong and committed a person J.R. is to have come through that,” she said about the severe burns he received on more than 40 percent of his body, including his face.

“The war is an ab