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...quest for a story meant to define an already stellar career, Michael Weisskopf lost a hand but reclaimed his life and family. Readers sympathized with Weisskopf and with the countless soldiers who are also nursing physical and psychic wounds received while serving their country...
...proficiency of U.S. lifesavers have produced this result. Of the 20,322 Americans wounded in action, 436 have been amputees--more than 2%, a figure higher than in every war of the previous century except Vietnam, for which there were no good statistics. In his book, Michael Weisskopf chronicles the recoveries of three amputees he met at Walter Reed...
...time.com to see a video interview with Michael Weisskopf and read a bonus excerpt from his book Blood Brothers
...around his right hand. He was identifying with my loss, a gesture I saw as a sign of forgiveness. I had shaken his sense of safety, the security blanket only a father can provide. Skyler's act of generosity capped a day of pardons across three generations of Weisskopf males...
...From the forthcoming book BLOOD BROTHERS: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57, by Michael Weisskopf. (copyright) 2006 by Michael Weisskopf. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt...