Photos of Wounded American Soldiers

[Best_man23]

Damn you Dumbya, damn you to hell!



http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/wounded/gallery.htm

[CatWoman]

1. damn

and double damn.

[Solly Mack]

2. Chucklenuts doesn't care....never has...never will

Our post hospital is filled with the wounded....we get more in everday...

[this_side_up]

3. republicans and

religious freaks have beautiful minds

[patrice]

4. You mean this guy isn't just high on the glory

of it all for the rest of his life?

He looks sad. What's wrong with him? He gets to be a saint for the rest of his natural born days. Isn't that enough?

I'll say what I said to the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce as they waited to hear George last week. "Bushie Christians need to look up the definition of blasphemy!"

[SoCalDem]

5. Right now they are mostly young and are being taken care of

but the real tragedy starts when they are "cut loose", and have to make it on their own.. The young man pictured is a prime example.. What kind of jobs are going to be available to a young black man who has lost both his legs?? I would bet money that this guy probably has a high school diploma or GED.. What does that prepare him for?? He will get disability from the military, but it's not enough to live on.. Do they provide the artificial limbs he will need for his whole life?? What if he does not live near a VA facility?? They are closing them down, you know??

Our young soldiers are being USED, ABUSED and then discarded.. Will this young man get a "Movie of the Week" deal, a book deal, a speaking tour??

When soldiers are injured or killed in the line of duty, they are soon forgotten by all but their immediate family.. What a waste of a young future :(

[jburton]

6. According to Ann Coulter

These soldiers simply got their hair messed up.

[SoCalDem]

7. Ward 57.. repost

SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-03 09:37 AM
Original message
The Soldiers of Ward 57...powerful stuff here

Edited on Sun Jul-27-03 09:42 AM by SoCalDem
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/photo/nation/2003-07-19_JohnFernandez/index_frames_archive.htm



The Soldiers of Ward 57
The War After the War
Soldiers' Battle Shifts From Desert Sands to Hospital Linoleum




http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I18056-2003Jul20L

Pfc. Garth Stewart undergoes therapy daily to try to regain strength. He lost 20 pounds and part of his left leg. (Michael Lutzky/The Washington Post)



_____In This Series_____

• Part II: Moving Forward, One Step at a Time (The Washington Post, Jul 20, 2003)

___ Video ___
Purple Hearts
Marine Gunnery Sgt. David Dill, 39, and Lance Cpl. John A. Keeney, 20, were awarded the Purple Heart for their sacrifices in Iraq. Both were recuperating at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.



By Anne Hull and Tamara Jones
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 20, 2003; Page A01


First of two articles

The taxicab pulls up to the curb of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Pfc. Garth Stewart slides into the back seat. A nurse stows his duffel bag in the trunk, offering her last advice. "Move your leg around on the flight," she says.

The American flag hangs slack on the flagpole. Garth lays his crutches across his lap. The lanky 20-year-old soldier from Minnesota rubs the place where his leg was amputated. The throbbing alternates with jolts that feel like electrical shocks. Two Percocets are in his pocket for the plane ride home.

As the cab cuts through Rock Creek Park, Garth rolls down the window to smell the forest. After weeks of hospital food and disinfectant, he breathes deeply. He rips the plastic hospital ID bracelet from his wrist and crumples it in a ball.

The bed that Garth left behind on Ward 57 will be filled by day's end. Even though major combat operations in Iraq are over, the wounded keep arriving. Twice a week, transport planes land at Andrews Air Force Base, bringing fresh casualties. Accidents, ambushes, pockets of resistance. Nearly 650 soldiers have passed through Walter Reed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, more than half of them since the conflict was officially declared over.

On TV, the war was a rout, with infrared tanks rolling toward Baghdad on a desert soundstage. But the permanent realities unfold more quietly on Georgia Avenue NW, behind the black iron gates of the nation's largest military hospital.


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[lumpy]

8. God bless this young man

and damn Bush to hell.

[RogueTrooper]

9. Support our troops

Fight this President and his fascist regime.

[Name removed]

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[arcane1]

11. invisible heros

these people should be on prime-time tv every damned night if you ask me...

But, sadly, no made-for-tv movies for any of them. No million-dollar book deals. No breathless live video of their tearful homecoming. No outpouring of public love and support. No exclusive interviews on the big talk shows. No human-interest stories on their families' plights. Not a word about what their benefits will and will not cover. Who knows if they will be able to go back to work, or even have a job left waiting for them. Barely even any mention online about them at all. They're treated like the mad aunt in the attic that we don't want anyone to see, and we only discuss in soft, vague whispers...

I suppose that giving them too much attention in public would "weaken our resolve", or "give comfort to our enemies" or some other such nonsense? Besides, we have whole, intact, complete, crisp, clean and handsome soldiers to honor in public! These other guys would just bring us down, right? That's why you have to go to obscure websites to even see them...

:grr:

[bigtree]

13. c/s

[dutchdemocrat]

14. I have cross linked an Iraqi victim thread

To show the insanity and evilness of this wicked web * has sucked the world into.

Thread on DU

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=299246




Image gallery link

http://www.einswine.com/atrocities/iraq/?pic=0

[Scurrilous]

12. Bush should be forced .....

...to spend his next 30 day vacation schlepping bedpans in a VA hospital. Give him a chance to get up close and personal with his handiwork.

[eleny]

15. You reminded me....

of the story about John Wayne who visited hospitalized soldiers during WW2 and had bedpans thrown at him. * needs that sort of reality check.

[quilp]

16. When you see that there really is nothing funny about Bush is there!

Like everyone else I make jokes and laugh about Bush. There is no way I could look that man in your photo in the eye and make a joke. He is the reality behind "bring 'em on" and the rest of the BS Bush and his ilk peddle. It is a deeply disturbing photograph which should be on every TV network, with mothers given strict instructions to have their children take a long look. There is no glory in war.

[Changenow]

17. Chimp hasn’t visited any wounded since the war "ended"

In May I guess he thinks those wounded now deserved it.

[Kamika]

18. About Lynch

Now i dont usually answer posts like these they are abit too melodramatic and doesnt really "do" anything. but i gotta say something. Just WHY couldnt the bush administration have picked one of these guys to make a "hero" of instead of a girl who in atleast most ways came out unharmed.

I think its so f*cking unfair that the buscho just "picked" out her to make a hero of. This guy could have used whatever money Lynch will get ALOT more.

pisses me of.

[arcane1]

20. that's what I want to know, Kamika!

I sent my post verbatum to my family (including my freeper father) and I'm patiently awaiting no reply whatsoever

:grr:

[CatWoman]

22. because she fit the criteria that appeals to *'s base

blonde and female and helpless-looking.

Gives them a hard on every time.

[leftofthedial]

19. I met a wounded Marine the other night

He was shot twice in the shoulder and is on recuperative leave.

He hates the government. Makes no distinction between parties or individuals. He's an anarchist.

Dude is a trained killing machine and he's an anarchist.

Oh boy.

[Kamika]

21. biker

Bet hell end up as a biker or something