Learning to live as Iraq war triple amputee (Will future Coulter diss him)

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http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=AMPUTEE-02-14-05&cat=WW

Joey Bozik is his name.

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On Oct. 27, his life changed. As did hers.

He was riding through the desert south of Baghdad when his Humvee rolled over a bomb. His buddies were OK. But Joey lost his right leg above the knee. His left leg, at the knee. His right arm, at the elbow.

They sent him to Germany, to the hospital. Then, they sent him home. He woke up in the amputee ward in Walter Reed, in Washington. Jayme was there.

He hurt where his arm and legs used to be. His foot hurt so badly he thought it was broken. He doesn't remember it, but Jayme does. She stayed most nights in the hospital room.

He could not feed himself, go to the bathroom, turn a page.

Family came. Friends. His mother, Gail, packed three outfits and stayed three months. She cared for him as he became a child all over again, learning to crawl, to sit, to eat.

If he would ever enter politics - would there be some bitch like Ann Coulter who would say he was only going to a party when he was so horribly injured?

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1. Future Coulters Will Diss Him...

Judging from current "conservative"/Republican behavior, if "Joey" runs for office as a Democrat or even as a moderate Republican (There are still reported sightings of these strange and exotic creatures every once in a great while), there will be a hateful "family values" "Conservative" ready and willing to trash him as a traitor.

Of course, I'm beginning to think that the only sort of military person a self-professed "Conservative" is likely to vote for in the future is a REMF. Anyone close enough to actual combat is likely to be trashed as a "war criminal" by a right-wing extremist.