A Soldier's Return, to a Dark and Moody World (Blinded in Iraq)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/30/national/30SOLD.html

Jeremy Feldbusch joined the Army to travel the world. Now the only place he can go by himself is the 40 steps from his bed to the reclining chair in the living room.

The stucco walls guide him, past the bathroom, kitchen and closet, past the photographs of him in football jacket and wrestling singlet, past the coffee table, where he sometimes stubs his toe. At last, he finds his chair.

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Sgt. Jeremy Feldbusch, a fit, driven, highly capable Army Ranger, left home in February knowing the risks of combat. Two months later, he came home blind.

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During the two months Jeremy Feldbusch spent recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, his parents lived at his bedside. Charlene Feldbusch remembers one day seeing a young female soldier crawling past her in the corridor with no legs and her 3-year-old son trailing behind.

That way maybe we can stop this madman and his gang of has-beens.

so I hear...


my I take this moment to say, again, that times like this make me wish I was a Christian. I could sure use the comfort of knowing that George Bush and his PNAC thugs will BURN IN HELL!!!!

:grr:

newpapers and even then it's sparse reporting.