Word: woundedness
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The Iraqi conflict may eventually become known as the "survivors' war," because of the all-time high ratio of wounded who returned home alive. I was one of them, thanks partly to the Army field hospital featured in HBO's extraordinary documentary, "Baghdad ER." Injured in a grenade attack while...
Motivated, but perhaps also haunted. The looking-glass quality of images of the wounded and dying, after all, makes for a difficult paradox. Military public affairs officers must make a tradeoff when granting media embedded access within medical units. While it is an opportunity to see the successes of military...
19th arrondisement. Just when we were wondering if there were any non-whites in Paris, Oliver Schmitz provided a little epic of the African diaspora in France. In his last moments of life, a wounded man from Lagos is tended by a sympathetic paramedic, also African. Flashbacks paint a tragic...
On Thursday, 18-year-old Hans Van Themsche donned a long black leather coat, purchased a hunting rifle, and then, in broad daylight, started stalking identifiable foreigners in Belgium's second city. First, he shot and wounded a woman of Turkish descent who had been sitting on a public bench...
The very best parts of Barnett's work come in the italicized sections that break up the academic discourse and recall, in whisper-quick fragments, the scenes he has experienced on the streets of Lhasa, then and now. Like many a romantic tourist, Barnett knew little about Tibet when he...