Mississippi soldier loses legs, three others wounded in Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/11269685.htm

[GainesT1958]

1. Rummy ought to be forced to...

Pay for the "bionic" prostheses fitted for this young man out of his own pocket!:mad;

B-)

[Erika]

2. How sad. No legs and for what? Imperialism

by this administration.

[bluestateguy]

3. He lost his legs so a frat boy at Ole Miss can get a cushy corporate job

at Halliburton or Bechtel.

[SodoffBush]

9. True, but the parents support the mission, as did their son

I guess that means they think there are WMD in Iraq and the Saddam was behind 9-11.

Now they have a child with no feet but with "hero" status.

Fair trade?

[Erika]

11. Your post is succinct but sickening

No one believes anymore that our kids are there for a noble purpose except maybe Laura after Bush had a brain transplant done on her. Powell showed his anger at being lied to on the intelligence reports, we were all told Iraq would pay our costs for being there, and the war would be short. It's morphed into a total cluster---- with the ONLY profiteers being Bush's donors. Our military services and our standard of living has taken the big hit.

When I think of the "shock and awe" campaign carried on with pride by our military against a third world country I cringe in horror as we decimated a poor country and killed their innocents...without any reason. There was NO reason for our attack. Our kids are still there and still being maimed and killed.

[UpInArms]

4. those troops are definitely going to need supporting

n the cargo hold of a C-17 aircraft, soldiers treated at the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad Air Base, north of Baghdad, await evacuation to a military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. This photograph was taken on Nov. 13, 2004, during a mortar attack on the base. The red lights indicate ''contingency situations.''

[TacticalPeek]

5. Bummer. And all for Bush's Folly.

Interesting thing c-span is doing about casualties. There's a segment tonight on c-span2 at 1:40 am EST.


Video Magazine
Soldiers Wounded in Iraq
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
C-SPAN
ID: 186070 - 03/10/2005 - 2:42 - $24.95

Gilman, James K., Commander, Walter Reed Health Care System
Oreskovic, Michael, Corporal, U.S. Army
Duckworth, Tammy, Major, National Guard, Illinois
Bowlsbey, Bryan, Captain, National Guard, Illinois
Valles, Erasmo, First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps
Valencia, Manuel Mendoza, Sergeant, U.S. Army

U.S. military personnel wounded in Iraq, and in physical therapy treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, spoke about their experience in Iraq and adjustment to life with their injuries. They also talked about the demands of military service, expectations for the future, their personal experiences with the hospital staff and other wounded personnel, as well as the continuing military mission in Iraq.

Colonel Gilman, the commander of the Walter Reed Health Care System, was also interviewed and conducted a tour of the physical and occupational therapy facilities for injured soldiers. Walter Reed Army Medical Center was the temporary home for some of the most seriously injured soldiers from the war in Iraq. Almost four thousand patients from Operation Iraqi Freedom had been treated at Walter Reed since the war began; about a quarter of those patients were injured in battle.


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[lostnfound]

12. That show had heavy doses of propaganda

Quite obviously, handpicked 'my blood runs red white and blue' types; permanently positive despite their missing limbs etc.. Nothing wrong with that, they are amazing people. But geez, where's the dark side? Are we to pretend that it doesn't exist? They didn't interview anyone who came back with serious brain injuries or with PTSD, at least not while I was watching it.

[donheld]

6. Very sad. We hear very little of the deaths

and nothing at all about the wounded. :grr:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. It strikes me as odd to hear about this.

Usually they don't elaborate on the type of wounds the soldiers have. They even interviewed the mother.

Here's a snip from the article

JACKSON, Miss. - One Mississippi Army National Guard soldier lost his legs and three other soldiers also were injured when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Iraq, Guard officials and the soldiers' families said Wednesday.

Guard officials said Specialists David W. Yancy of Ripley and William E. Brooks of Southaven, and Sgt. Leonard A. Casper Jr., of Myrtle and Sgt. 1st Class Wyman C. Floyd of Hattiesburg were injured in the explosion. The men are members of the 155th Brigade Combat Team.

Brooks' mother, Carolyn, told The Associated Press her son was the most severely injured.

"What we know right now is he is in critical but stable condition," Carolyn Brooks said. "He had both legs amputated below the knee."

[sharonking21]

13. Home town papers do elaborate

I know because I have been immersed in sending letters and packages to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last month. The Democrats in my precinct got together (Austin liberals, all) to get together the stuff.

Anyway, now, just like a mom, I am starting to worry about individuals I've been sending things or letters to. One of them near Fallujuh suddenly posted on the AnySoldier.Com website that I am using that he had to go home for medical treatment. That sent me running to see if I could find out if he'd been wounded.

So I have been checking this site below. I read quickly through the news reports on the right, looking for hometown papers. I also go to their listing of those killed.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

[SodoffBush]

8. This is what Bush calls a "sign of progress"

!

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. I was just thinking that by some miracle things were improving

in Iraq. Then I saw this.

[NNN0LHI]

14. Good to see this stuff is finally being reported n/t

[indepat]

15. We can take great comfort that this soldier will be adequately compensated

for his sacrifices to the neocon cause.