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This is a story of the unseen war--and the grim, quiet battles that take place when wounded soldiers arrive home. What happened to members of the 2nd Squad of the 1st Platoon--who call themselves the War Machine--of the 43rd Combat Engineer Company is a tale that has never been told. Soldiers have been wounded in war since the beginning of time--a fact that armies never like advertising. The Pentagon, which makes terse announcements when U.S. soldiers die in combat in Iraq, doesn't inform the public about those who have been wounded or release month...
...159th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) has whisked more than 3,600 injured and ill troops to medical help with only a handful dying along the way. "We've given people a lot of tomorrows," says Major Arthur Jackson, chief of the unit's Baghdad squad. But many will face grim times. "People say, 'Well, he didn't die,'" says Captain Todd Farrell, a 159th helicopter pilot. "But a lot of these guys have an arm blown off or their leg blown off below the femur. Their lives are still going to suck...
...songs themselves are unremittingly grim in subject matter. Dalle just separated from her husband Tim Armstrong, lead singer of Rancid, and the lyrics (and blood-and-razor soaked album art) are full of pain...
...tapes that Jubran showed to the audience at the Science Center on Monday are grim reminders of the intrusive powers granted to various U.S. security agencies by the Patriot Act, such as the ability to invade the privacy of citizens whose only crime is the exercise of their First Amendment rights...
...outlook was not entirely grim last night, however...