“Kids would have third-degree burns, limbs blown off.

[Mabus]

It makes you wonder if and when we leave what’s gonna happen to them,” (Josh) Adams said.


From "Soldier readjusts to life back in Lawrence: E.R. scratches don’t compare to battle wounds, nurse says"
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/aug/12/soldier_readjusts_life_back_lawrence/?city_local

The injuries that nurse Josh Adams sees in the emergency room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital are a far cry from those he recently spent a year treating in Afghanistan.

At LMH he more often deals with cuts and bruises — not gunshot wounds and missing limbs.

“It’s the most heavily littered land mine area in the world,” Adams said of the war-torn mountain nation. “People are stepping on land mines all of the time — not the U.S. men but Afghanis. I’d say 80 percent of our patients were Afghans.”

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“No one prays for peace like a soldier,” he said.
rest at link.

I cannot (nor do I want to) know the horrors of war. I am grateful that at least we have soliders that care. I'm just so sorry that their lives have been forever changed in this manner.