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J.R. Martinez Moves The Ballroom To Tears On DWTS

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Oct. 4 2011, Published 8:30 a.m. ET

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By Adam S. Levy

Breaking Celebrity News Staff Writer

There was hardly a dry eye in the house on Dancing with the Stars Monday night when J.R. Martinez shared his gut wrenching story and then performed an emotional rumba dedicated to U.S. military personnel who didn’t make it home.

The 28-year-old Georgia native -- who suffered burns to more than 40 percent of his body after driving over an Iraq landmine when he was 19 -- danced to Tim McGraw's If You’re Reading This, a somber song about a letter a serviceman wrote to his family before he died in combat.

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