Amputee soldiers ponder bitter-sweet price of survival

Lucky

A lot more of this to come unfortunately.

That a lot of the soldiers that are living through some horific injuries would have died 20yrs ago. My point is that the death toll isnt the only cost we are paying. The limb toll is something else people need to realize.

That number isn't being floated about on the national media...at least when I watch TV.

It will be 10,000 unfotunatly before we know it and how many of them are permanently disabled? Oh and do they mention how * administration is cutting benefits?

I didn't find a bookmark, but I could swear I remember reading this.

Investing in the war machine and covering that investment with the medical repair industry. People should really understand how Carlyle is the 21st century model of private business war profiteering. And it's owned by a bunch of Republicans who have made public policies that lead them to reap huge profits in the private sector.

Regarding the casualties of war, while modern medicine will save many more soldiers who would have died in previous wars, they will create a huge class of soldiers who will live with their devastatng injuries for the rest of their days......really sad.

However, they produce electronic equipment, not prosthetics. Hey, they'd do prosthetics if there was enough money in it. Their news releases are interesting reading: http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/news/l4-archivelink839.html

I see that they acquired majority share in CSX in 2002. Now that Snow is busy overseeing the draining of our treasury, Carlyle bleed CSX *and* the Treasury to death from the other end.

Among other things it contains this chilling dismissal of the psychological impact of the war:

<<In nearly every room of Walter Reed, a pain rating scale is taped to the wall, giving people a vocabulary for the ineffable. Ten is the worst. The scale also offers more subtle shadings, from pain that is cutting to one that is raw, burning, stabbing.

"I talked to this guy the other day and I asked him why he was here, and he said, `Stress.' " Specialist Acosta said. "Stress? I told him he was a coward and just walked away."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/national/16WOUN.html

It's a very revealing article in many ways. But no mention of the almost 9,000 sick and wounded who have been through Landruhl Military hospital in Germany. The London Independent had that story on Friday.