Have 100% of wounded soldiers really survived?

[displacedtexan]

When we hear that soldiers have been wounded, we never hear that any of them died later due to their wounds (maybe one or two).

Is this really possible? If so, I'm really impressed!

Unfortunately, I don't trust a single report issued by the * administration, and I fear that we only get reports of deaths and injuries because there are too many witnesses to suppress them.

If I'm right, the US Government may be lying to many grieving families: one soldier dies on a given day, but they tell 5 families that their son/daughter was the 'one soldier').

Also, I fear that our soldiers are being cheated out of benefits.

I hope I just need to adjust my tin foil hat, but...

[RC]

1. Only those that die on the spot are reported.

If they survive to the hospital they are not counted as combat deaths. the last real figure I read somewhere was something like 2800 something dead.

[displacedtexan]

4. Does this not count as 'war dead?'

Is this based on some antiquated 'rule,' like dying on foreign soil or Civil War battlefield casualties not being evacuated to hospitals?

If you get limbs blown off and survive in agony long enough to be evacuated, I think you should be accorded full benefits and honors.
Am I crazy?

[blondeatlast]

8. No. (Puts John Asscroft hat on.)

Yes--expect a knock on your door shortly.

[RC]

9. I got that number somewhere on DU

Can't remember where.

Try these & think - - -

Many Deaths Left Out of Iraq Story
http://www.fair.org/activism/iraq-casualties-networks.html


http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/08/28_deaths.html

http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20030826/FP_005.htm

[FloridaPat]

5. Do you remeber where you saw that? That is one big

secret! That's almost the number the administration is reporting wounded.

[SheilaT]

2. A few such deaths have been reported

but mostly if the wounded soldier dies in the first few hours after surviving the attack.

Keep in mind that battlefield medicine is so good that if a soldier lives long enough to get to a hospital the odds are very good that he'll live out his normal life span. He may well be maimed -- there are a lot of legless and armless soldiers coming out of this war -- but he'll be alive.

The same survival thing applies to most people who survive a car or plane crash. The vast majority who make it to a hospital live on for years afterward. Modern medicine is truly wonderful.

[blondeatlast]

7. War should NEVER be "sanitized for our convenience."

"He may well be maimed--"

Well, maimed is something we ought to know about. I remember Vietnam, though I was quite young. The news reports of the dead and maimed soldiers made us question our reason for being there, and it wasn't just the protestors.

edited for more effective SL

[blondeatlast]

3. Through mutual agreement between the media and the administration,

we no longer have a free press.

We will never know the truth about this one.

[lastknowngood]

6. Secrecy is their game

this is the only time Americans have be kept in the dark about causality's. The only reason is to down play the numbers something they learned all to well from Vietnam. The so called media is in criminal negligence to their duty by neither mentioning or pursuing it. the true number will never be know as long as the RNC "Republican Nazis Committee" is running the show. It would be a good idea to start a national register of families of the fallen and get in on the web. We could add the wounded and perhaps get closer to the real number.

[pansypoo53219]

10. from what i see

they don't count suicides. don't know about soldiers who die after they get home to the US.