'Emotional rollercoaster' hits war hero

[deadparrot]

Spc. Ashley Pullen wasn't thinking about the dozens of Iraqi insurgents who had just ambushed the convoy. Or their piles of guns and grenades or the bullets ripping through the air around her.

Her bloody comrade lay on the road south of Baghdad, and she had to help the gravely wounded soldier — fast.

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She ran 100, 200, 300 feet — the length of a football field.

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Now, 21 months later, Pullen is a casualty of war, struggling with invisible battle scars.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/women_in_war_hero

[wellstone dem]

1. That left me in tears, a true story of the impact of this war

on our sisters and brothers.