Word: shrapnel
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...time I got to the wall, the two mounds were erupting like a pair of small volcanoes, with big bangs that produced mini-mushroom clouds of white and gray smoke. Shrapnel fell on the road and slammed against the wall. Somewhere behind me, I heard glass shatter. After one particularly loud blast, I heard a woman scream in fear from inside one of the houses along the alleyway...
...patients alike. The nearby fighting has created a steady stream of patients. Surgery goes on nonstop all day. Warren, an orthopedic surgeon, just operated on a 5-month-old Iraqi girl, who was later airlifted to the hospital ship U.S.S. Comfort. She was in her mother's arms when shrapnel passed through both her feet. Her mother didn't survive. Says Warren: "We didn't expect to be operating on children here...
...blast, and then soldiers started screaming, "Get out! Get out!" Someone had slipped two hand grenades into the tent housing more than a dozen of the brigade's officers. One woman in my tent, which was 10 yards away from the explosion, yelled, "I'm hit." A piece of shrapnel from the grenade had lodged...
...Back at the blocking position Mitchell estimated at least 20 or 30 Iraqi dead, in the bungalow and the ditches around. Not a single round, not even a piece of shrapnel, has hit the Americans. "Good stuff, good stuff," said Capt. Melendez. "Now I have an idea of the capability and how they're deploying it. And I got the result I was looking for-it ain't much...
...attack comes, he'll need them for doctors and patients alike. The nearby fighting has created a steady stream of patients. Surgery goes on nonstop all day. Warren, an orthopedic surgeon, just operated on a 5-month-old Iraqi girl. She was in her mother's arms when shrapnel passed through both her feet. Her mother didn't survive. Says Warren: "We didn't expect to be operating on children here...