Number of soldiers wounded in Iraq grow daily

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/special_packages/iraq/7348197.htm

LANDSTUHL, Germany - Army Spc. Jason Gunn doesn't recall hearing the explosion.

"I felt all this tremendous pressure coming down on top of me," Gunn, 24, recalled from his hospital bed in Germany last week, after being evacuated from Baghdad and joining the growing list of wounded-in-action from Iraq.

There are thousands of them, and a new generation of disabled veterans promises to be among the painful, expensive legacies of the Iraq war, one that hasn't received much attention yet.

"Everything was just, like, real quiet. Everything got real dark and glazy, and then I just felt all this pain. And the next thing I knew, I could feel the Humvee just whipping around, and we hit the guardrail and we finally stopped, and that's when I opened my eyes."

Nov. 15 had been just another Saturday for Gunn, of Philadelphia, who drove an Abrams tank into postwar Baghdad with the 1st Armored Division. He had been shot at and mortared before, and sometimes he wondered what U.S. troops were doing there. But he took solace in the laughter of Iraqi children and the visible improvement in his battalion's northern Baghdad sector.

At the wheel of a Humvee that day, Gunn drove down the middle of the street in a failed effort to evade the sort of roadside bomb that had killed so many other soldiers.

"Everything was just smoky. I looked at myself - I was still smoking. There was blood all over the place, and I just thought, you know, just, I thought I was going to die."
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[ClintonTyree]

1. This can't be true...............

the Iraqis are attacking themselves, haven't you been watching cable news? They're "soft targets" so they shoot each other. This young soldier must be mistaken. :eyes: Up is down, black is white, night is day, good is evil........ you need wings to stay above the bullshit they're shoveling our way lately.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. My thoughts exactly. This story was nestled among dozens

proclaiming the shift in "insurgent" attacks.

[dArKeR]

3. KEN DILANIAN is disgusting for even mentioning 'expensive' in his

report. And our GOP leaders are more disgusting for letting this happen to our children. Sine Bush is as intelligent as the Media Whores say, he should have found a non-violent method to solve this. That's why we give him and the other leaders the right to make billions from their corporations.

Our constitution should be changed that forces the President to offer/accept (if given) a personal dual between the two leaders of a country and use that to resolve the situation at hand instead of sending our children to die in oil fields for the personal profit of friends of our leaders.

[54anickel]

4. Wow, great article. Thanks for posting it.