Word: woundedness
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You have to stand a ways back, but from a certain angle these look like the lucky ones. In any other war, they would be dead, having bled to death on the battlefield or died in a hospital from wounds so grievous that their armor could not protect them and...
It is so much easier, of course, to call the U.S. wounded unlucky, the double and triple amputees maimed in a war that has not always gone as planned. If Kevlar and ceramic plates are the great lifesavers of modern warfare along with quick-clotting powders and ultrasound units that...
Every war mutilates in its own way, leaves its distinctive marks. In this war, unlike battles past, only 16% of injuries were caused by gunshots, according to a study; 69% were from explosions--the roadside booby traps, the car bombs, the rocket-propelled grenades. The vast majority of injuries are...
We name and honor the dead, but the wounded return home more quietly, privately. They are beginning to walk and wheel among us, visible reminders of the cost of war and the courage it takes to fight it. More than half of those injured cannot return to duty. Yet there...
In the tragic story is Lee (Jonny Lee Miller), a struggling actor, and his stylish wife Laurel (Chloë Sevigny). In the comic is Susan (Amanda Peet), a film director, and her actor husband Hobie (Will Ferrell). Shuttling between them as the cause or victim of many an infidelity is Melinda...