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...carry out a lot of amputations. From within the trauma wards, Landstuhl's doctors and nurses have had a close-up view of the war's mayhem, almost as intense as in Iraq itself. After being wheeled through Landstuhl's doors one snowy morning in late January, Brent Jurgersen, 42, a first sergeant from Low Moor, Iowa, was rushed into an operating room, where surgeons amputated his left leg at the knee. The day before, as Jurgersen led his Humvee through a village near Samarra...
...fired rocket-propelled grenades, splitting apart the vehicle. In the brief moment he was conscious, he saw the blinding flash of the explosion and the dead body of his gunner sprawled across the back seat. Days later, doctors in Iraq e-mailed surgeons at Walter Reed to say that Jurgersen had flatlined twice in the field hospital in Balad, before being flown to Landstuhl. Like many other soldiers who've landed here during past two years, it was not Jurgersen's first evacuation. Last June, he survived a bullet that pierced his tongue and lodged in the back of throat...
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