Soldier dies 6 months after being hurt in Iraq

[unhappycamper]

Soldier dies 6 months after being hurt in Iraq
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Feb 26, 2008 12:50:37 EST

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — A western New York soldier wounded six months ago in an explosion in Iraq has died in a military hospital in Maryland.

Army Spc. Kevin Mowl of the Rochester suburb of Pittsford was 22 when he died Monday at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.

Mowl suffered multiple broken bones and a head injury Aug. 2 when a roadside bomb flipped his vehicle in Baghdad. Three others died, and 11 soldiers and an interpreter were injured.

President Bush presented Mowl with a Purple Heart and a Presidential Medallion at the hospital in December.

Mowl recently suffered a serious infection after part of his feeding tube broke and perforated his intestines.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_6monthsafter_022608/



uhc comment: To date, three thousand nine hundred seventy three soldiers have died as a result of the invasion and occupation of Iraq --> http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

[Skittles]

1. I cannot imagine the suffering of his family, too

just awful

[bluerum]

2. Mowl recently suffered a serious infection after part of his feeding tube broke

and perforated his intestines.

This sounds like negelect/poor medical care.

I hope his relatives investigate and take legal action.