Another Iraq war legacy: badly wounded US troops

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6191028&cKey=1130271639000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sgt. Joey Bozik remembers coming out of a coma at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre not fully understanding why he was there.

"I knew something had happened to me, I just didn't know what," Bozik said.

He first inquired about his family, then about himself.

"I had an above-the-knee amputation of my right leg and a below-the-knee amputation on my left leg. I had a below-the-elbow amputation on my right arm. And on my left hand, my thumb and pinkie were fractured and the metacarpals in my hand were fractured and I fractured my wrist," Bozik said.

The human toll for the U.S. military in the Iraq war is not limited to the 2,000 deaths since the March 2003 invasion. More than 15,220 also have been wounded in combat, including more than 7,100 injured too badly to return to duty, the Pentagon said. Thousands more have been hurt in incidents unrelated to combat.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. And it was for nothing.

[babylonsister]

2. Oh, how horrific. And there are many more like Sgt.

Bozik. :cry:

[Inland]

3. And too badly injured to return to duy is severely injured.

I suspect if you end up able to walk, you re back in the field.

[Wilms]

4. I heard that's actually true.

Unreal. :cry: