Word: woundedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several Democratic Senators who opposed the force resolution have already seen their ratings drop as much as 17 points in state polls. And two potential presidential candidates, House majority leader Richard Gephardt and New York Governor Mario Cuomo, badly wounded themselves before the war started by suggesting, respectively, that Congress...
He found that only about 22 percent of all television reports from Vietnam before 1968 showed "actual combat, and often this was minimal--a few incoming mortar rounds or a crackle of sniper fire." In addition, of 167 film reports he reviewed, "only 16 had more than one video shot...
Steinberg, who says he was discharged early from the Veterans' Administration hospital in Bedford in order to make room for the wounded from Operation Desert Storm, says the government is always more responsive to veterans who are physically handicapped than to those mentally disabled by war.
including POWs and those killed, wounded or missing in action
One of the gravest threats to anyone severely burned or injured -- or to soldiers wounded in battle -- is massive, system-wide bacterial infection. Such infection with toxic, "gram-negative" bacteria kills up to 100,000 Americans a year, many of them surgical patients and trauma victims. Last week researchers at...