Monday, August 01, 2005

News and links

Story on the wounded: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8767915/site/newsweek/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8767915/site/newsweek/page/2/

Good Resource site: http://www.optruth.org/

Awesome list of resources for vets: http://www.optruth.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=42

understanding the wounded: http://www.optruth.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=66

More help for vets: http://www.dav.org/

See the Movie! Read the News

This is worth waiting for the download, even on dial up! I found it here.

See this vidio clip!

Soldier survives attack; captures, medically treats sniper

"During a routine patrol in Baghdad June 2, Army Pfc. Stephen Tschiderer, a
medic, was shot in the chest by an enemy sniper, hiding in a van just 75
yards away. The incident was filmed by the insurgents"...... Read
all about it! And don't miss the report!(pdf)

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I found it here.

06/13/05 BAGHDAD (AP) -

"A suicide car bomb exploded next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys, killing 18 children and teenagers Wednesday. Parents heard the shattering explosion and raced out to the discover children's mangled, bloodied bodies strewn on the street.....At Kindi hospital, where many victims were taken, a distraught mother swathed in black sat cross-legged outside the operating room. "May God curse the mujahedeen and their leader," she cried, referring to the insurgents as she pounded her head with her fists in grief. "

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I found it here.

LES BLUMENTHAL; The News Tribune
Last updated: July 11th, 2005 08:44 AM (PDT)

"The day before his 22nd birthday, a bomb hanging from a tree along a road near Fallujah exploded above Rory Dunn’s Humvee. Dunn’s forehead was crushed from ear to ear, leaving his brain exposed. His right eye was destroyed by shrapnel;the left eye nearly so. His hearing was severely damaged.

“I remember a bright flash. The trees lit up, and the Humvee was shaking,” Dunn recalled during a recent interview while curled up in an easy chair in the living room of his mother’s Renton home. Within minutes of the May 2004 explosion, he was strapped on a stretcher and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Baghdad – the first step in his 10-month struggle to recover"......Read it all here


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