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Epstein states that some members of the Commission never were convinced that one bullet had wounded both...
...Ananda, only 20, returned to Bangkok to be crowned King. His reign lasted just six months. Early one morning he was found dead with a bullet in his forehead. The gun was his own, but whether he or someone else pulled the trigger has never been known to the public. At the age of 18, Bhumibol, the most fun-loving of the royal family, suddenly found himself King of Thailand...
Laymen have always been inclined to regard a bullet or a metal fragment in the heart as a sentence of death. And until World War I, most surgeons agreed. Sometimes they could remove the offending object and the patient would live-but the operations were often as deadly as the fragments. Now a 20-year follow-up of World War II injuries shows that, despite all surgery's advances, in many cases it is still better to leave a bullet in the heart...
...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...