Wounded in Iraq:Shattered bodies,shattered lives

[Monkeyman]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/15/wounded.perry.btsc/index.html
After reading this one you can see why I push for VA health care


Bagdad Iraq (CNN)--- Ever seen someone have thier chest cracked,"one of the medics asked me on my first day in a combat hospital here in Iraq
How in the world doo you answer that question?
"Not as far as I can remember,"I said sarcastically.
"You will," he answered with a sly,chidish grin on his face.
I had no idea what I would see and how real the war becomes here in the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Bagdad -- the busiest in the country.

Helicopters land around the clock, bring in U.S. troops wounded and dead,along with wounded insurgents and civilians.
The job of these doctors and medics is to save the life of someone who has endured "fresh trama" which means they were pulled directly from the battlefield and taken right into the trauma room.Eighteen-year-old medics are doing things here that they would never do back home.They do it,because they have to. No one can imagine the stength it takes to look another 18-year old in the face as he pleads for his life,putting his entire future in the hands of people he has just met.

IT HAPPENS HERE,EVERY DAY.