Post by whatever on Mar 29, 2005 6:50:44 GMT -5
I should start a thread and just keep posting stories to it, like the Daily Brickabracks thing.
T r u t h o u t article
If the rates of survival are encouraging, for many injured soldiers the conditions of survival are not. "You live," says Lt. Col. Craig Silverton, an orthopedic surgeon who has treated soldiers in Iraq, "but you have these devastating injuries." Modern body armor helps spare the head, heart, lungs and other internal organs, but the areas that remain unprotected -- limbs, neck and face -- are exposed to explosive forces that were often fatal in previous wars. Amputation rates among soldiers, according to recent Congressional estimates, have doubled to 6 percent from the historic norm. Brain injuries are also common. more...
I remember this is what they said would happen before the start of the war. That the casualties would be much worse. This was mostly ignored.
T r u t h o u t article
If the rates of survival are encouraging, for many injured soldiers the conditions of survival are not. "You live," says Lt. Col. Craig Silverton, an orthopedic surgeon who has treated soldiers in Iraq, "but you have these devastating injuries." Modern body armor helps spare the head, heart, lungs and other internal organs, but the areas that remain unprotected -- limbs, neck and face -- are exposed to explosive forces that were often fatal in previous wars. Amputation rates among soldiers, according to recent Congressional estimates, have doubled to 6 percent from the historic norm. Brain injuries are also common. more...
I remember this is what they said would happen before the start of the war. That the casualties would be much worse. This was mostly ignored.
...when he's around