Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...
Epstein states that some members of the Commission never were convinced that one bullet had wounded both...
Under pressure to complete the Report well in advance of the upcoming 1965 Presidential election, however, the Commission finally agreed unanimously to a statement that the evidence was "very persuasive...to indicate that the same bullet that pierced the President's throat also caused Governor Connally's wounds," Epstein says...
...veterans described by Bland and Beebe in the New England Journal of Medicine suffered his heart wound at the age of 13 while hunting rabbits. A .22-cal. bullet entered his chest but was removed, and he made such a good recovery that at 18 he was inducted into the Army and fought in Tunisia. Under combat stress, he developed chest pains, and X rays revealed 13 metallic fragments in his chest, three within the heart wall itself. Without surgery, he recovered enough to fight in France and win a Silver Star. Now he works full time as a house...
Pendulum Swing. The most remarkable case is that of a soldier who was 28 when he took a bullet in the heart at Bastogne. Two quarts of blood had to be drawn from his punctured chest, and not surprisingly, he has had his share of lung trouble. But after more than 20 years, his ECG is normal, although X rays show the bullet still firmly lodged in the back wall of his left ventricle. There it swings, pendulum fashion, with each heartbeat. Though the veteran sometimes suffers from short ness of breath and dizziness, his main trouble is anxiety...