NPR:"Healing a Deep Wound from Iraq" (One Wounded, former Soldier's Story)

[Up2Late]

(This Permanently disable Soldier was brave enough to tell his story for all to hear, we should all be brave enough to listen to what he had to say.
A tragic side note: His Father is also a Disabled Vet, Wounded during the 1968 "Tet Offensive" in Vietnam.)

The Span of War

Healing a Deep Wound from Iraq

Listen to this story on-line at the link above

by Eric Westervelt

All Things Considered, June 27, 2005 · More than 13,070 U.S. troops have been injured in Iraq, with just over half of those injured unable to return to duty. One recovering soldier is 32-year-old Robert Bartlett, an Army scout with the 3rd Infantry Division.


Photo by:Eric Westervelt, NPR
Spc. Robert Bartlett in his room at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in Washington, D.C. June 2005.

A roadside bomb in early May killed his friend and ripped off Bartlett's jaw, took out one eye and badly injured the soldier's face, nose and mouth. Bartlett's father, a Vietnam war veteran injured in the Tet offensive, is helping his son recover physically and mentally. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.


Photo by: Eric Westervelt, NPR
Spc. Bartlett and his father, Chuck Bartlett,
a decorated Vietnam War veteran who was seriously
injured during the Tet Offensive in May 1968.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4720526>

(On-line Audio of this and other "The Span of War" stories at the link above)

[Hissyspit]

1. I heard it this afternoon. Very disturbing and upsetting.

[Up2Late]

2. Well that's a bit harsh, it's not all bad, true it might not be uplifting.

but other parts offer some hope.

To the other DU Members, I hope you won't let one persons reaction scare you off.

[Hissyspit]

3. No, I highly recommend they listen, but...

the story of how the wounds occur, what happens to his face, and the fact that it should have occurred because of the lies and manipulations of the right-wing usurpers of American democracy, THOSE THINGS are what is disturbing and upsetting. My post was an endorsement. Not everything has to be uplifting to be of value.

[Up2Late]

4. kick n/t

:kick: