Word: woundedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under a dim bedside lamp in a hospital ward in Landstuhl, Germany, 1st Infantry Division Specialist Shane Salter sobs for his dead sergeant, whose hand he clutched in a morgue in Iraq just five days earlier. At 22, Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29...
(2 of 3) Their tales are as old as war itself. But Landstuhl is unique because getting here fast from two time zones away can mean the difference between life and death. "If they can make it back to Landstuhl, their chance of survival is really good," says Lieut. Colonel...
(3 of 3) Under Cornum, the hospital has been thoroughly modernized. Today's combat doctors are likely wired to e-mail and cell phones. Holcomb, who now heads the Army's Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, says he routinely gets an e-mail "from some doctor...
What would you do under those circumstances? Scream? Panic? Beg? But at that point, something else intervened. Smith actually communicated with her captor. She says she saw him not as a monster but as a human being. She talked with him. She told her story--how her husband had been...
One year after Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian and his running mate Annette Lu were wounded on the eve of the island's 2004 election, Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau announced last week that it had a suspect: Chen Yi-hsiung, an unemployed man who blamed the President for...