Word: woundedness
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Hekmatullah's house cracked apart like an egg. So did Hekmatullah. A bullet shattered his leg, and another lodged itself inches from his spine. His brother Abdul Halim rushed him to Kandahar hospital. But that night there were dozens of wounded, lying in the corridors on a stinking, bloodstained floor...
I'd been going to Afghanistan on and off since 1990, and I'd seen a lot of wounded Afghans. Usually, they inflicted this damage on each other. But this time was different. This time, it was my government that was doing the killing and the wounding. And I felt...
LeAnn, portrayed with a delicately-layered vulnerability by Angela M. Hur ’03, is a flag-waving protester who has responded to the question, “What can you do for your country?” She volunteers as a nurse, hoping to care for wounded soldiers...
It was sunset as we left Chaman. As the road wound up into the mountains, we came across the horde of illegal refugees who'd scrambled across the border earlier. They were in a long caravan of tractors, taxis, pickups and wildly-painted buses with men clinging to their sides...
If many people had a bad passage last week, there were also plenty who were trying to make their peace with war. "The vast majority expect us to win this war on terrorism sooner rather than later," says another lawyer in Chicago. "There likely will be other terrorists attacks and...