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...hours after I arrived, a helicopter dropped off a soldier with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was an Iraqi prisoner. The young man was immediately taken to the operating room, with CNN providing live coverage. "Medical triage, not political triage," said Dr. John Perciballi, the lead surgeon. During my six-day stay, they treated 64 patients, 70% of whom were Iraqis, with injuries varying from gunshot wounds to broken limbs to amputation completions. This is difficult work even absent a war. Yet the surgeons sometimes operated wearing gas masks while alarms sounded in the distance...
...Summers serve: Like a gunshot, it hits with a deadly precision and power. Summers rarely double faults, and his second serve is no throwaway. Slow receiving reflexes (known colloquially as “Kenyonitis”) are a sure path to match-love...
...hours after I arrived, a helicopter dropped off a soldier with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was an Iraqi prisoner. The young man was immediately taken to the operating room, with CNN providing live coverage. "Medical triage, not political triage," said Dr. John Perciballi, the lead surgeon. During my six-day stay, they treated 64 patients, 70% of whom were Iraqis, with injuries varying from gunshot wounds to broken limbs to amputation completions. This is difficult work even absent a war. Yet the surgeons sometimes operated wearing gas masks while alarms sounded in the distance...
...aboard a Blackhawk searching for a downed F-16 pilot on February 27, 1991 when the aircraft came under fire. Five soldiers on board died. Cornum and two others survived. Pinned under the wreckage, she dug her way out with two broken arms, a broken finger, a gunshot wound, torn knee ligaments, an eye glued shut with blood, and other injuries...
...White House press secretary in the Kennedy Administration; in Kentucky. Kilduff was the first to inform a shocked nation of the death of its President on Nov. 22, 1963, when he said, "President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1 p.m. ? today here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound in the brain." After Kennedy's assassination, Kilduff served as assistant press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson before resigning in 1965 to start his own public-relations firm...