Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardest of her duties was identifying wounds that had been self-inflicted. "I had to make reports on the size of the wound, the distance of the weapon from the wound, the seriousness of the wound. Sometimes the boys would shoot each other in the arm, leg-somewhere that wouldn't maim, but would get them out of this gruesome war. If I identified such wounds, the boys were taken off and shot...
...hanging halfway out the square hole that was once a nice view of the federal building. Had he weighed less, he says, he would have been on the street. Groggy and bleeding, Smith backed away from the window, aching and exhausted. The more he limped, the more his leg hurt. He heard a man down the hall screaming. "He said he couldn't walk," Smith said, "but I told him that you gotta get outta there because there might be another bomb: 'You gotta...
...rebar to reach Bradley. But the space was still tiny for the three doctors. "You had to crawl in on your hands and knees in about a foot of water," says Massad. The doctors told her the only chance to save her would be to cut off the leg crushed beneath the girders. She begged them to try another way. "She was in shock, but very alert. We said, regardless, we are going to do it." The risk, the team agreed, was that without immediate surgery, Bradley would quickly lapse into a coma...
...operation no modern surgeon outside of a battlefield thought he would ever perform. Giving her much painkiller would also increase the risk of coma, so as Dana screamed, a surgeon used surgical saws, scissors and scalpels to remove the leg below the knee. When they were done, they hauled her out with a chest harness and carried her 100 yards on a gurney to a waiting ambulance. Only later did the doctors learn that she had lost her mother and two children in the blast...
...Deken, 17, who was in English class when he heard the news: "We were just saying a few minutes before that these guys better not set foot in Perry, and suddenly, well, here he is." As the blank-faced, orange-clad McVeigh was led out through the crowd in leg irons and handcuffs, cries of "Baby killer!" tore...