U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Iraq Grow in Number Day After Day

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1125-11.htm


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There are thousands of them, and a new generation of
disabled veterans promises to be among the painful,
expensive legacies of the Iraq war, one that hasn't received
much attention yet.

"Everything was just, like, real quiet. Everything got real dark
and glazy, and then I just felt all this pain. And the next thing I
knew, I could feel the Humvee just whipping around, and we
hit the guardrail and we finally stopped, and that's when I
opened my eyes."

Nov. 15 had been just another Saturday for Gunn, of
Philadelphia, who drove an Abrams tank into postwar
Baghdad with the 1st Armored Division. He had been shot at
and mortared before, and sometimes he wondered what
U.S. troops were doing there. But he took solace in the
laughter of Iraqi children and the visible improvement in his
battalion's northern Baghdad sector.

At the wheel of a Humvee that day, Gunn drove down the
middle of the street in a failed effort to evade the sort of
roadside bomb that had killed so many other soldiers.


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