Casualties grapple with scars, emotions
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LANDSTUHL, Germany -- Marine Staff Sergeant Samuel J. Mortimer wore two bent dog tags on a chain around his neck, stared at a photograph of a gaping gunshot wound to his left elbow, and expressed a burning desire to return to Iraq.
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For every American soldier killed in Iraq, nine others have been wounded and survived &#151; the highest rate of any war in U.S. history. It isn't that their injuries were less serious, a new report says. In fact, some young soldiers and Marines have had faces, arms and legs blown off and are now returning home badly maimed.
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Doctors are testing a new therapy aimed at helping soldiers with posttraumatic stress disorder by having them repeatedly relive the trauma of the battlefield.
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There was a time when the trauma unit at the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in Willowbrook was state of the art - if you wanted to train to become a war medic.
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Those words evoke powerful emotions for combat veterans of the Vietnam War three decades after they served in a military conflict many believe was undone by politicians and an increasingly disapproving public.
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Correspondent Michael Weisskopf had his right hand blown off in Iraq. This is the story of how he rebuilt his life -- and what he learned from the soldiers who lost even more
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A therapist helps to rebuild functions (and families) shattered by brain trauma.
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Bloodied and bewildered strangers led each other from the wreckage of the London bombings last July 7. A year later, many of them have forged close bonds &amp;#151; sharing their experiences in a network of blogs.
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ABCâs Bob Woodruff tells his story of surviving an explosion in Iraq with candor and restraint, then focuses on those who return and do not heal as thoroughly.
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Adding a voice of experience to the horror stories emerging about soldiers left to rot in the dark corners of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a patient posts from the hospital. Plus: Robo-chopper sniffs IEDs. In Danger Room.
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HAY DRIG, Sudan, Sept. 29 -- Haggard survivors of fighting in southern Darfur, thorns stuck to their bloody feet, straggled into this refugee community before dawn Wednesday and told harrowing tales of attacks by men in government uniforms who marauded through their villages.
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Honoring fallen soldiers who died in combat, battle-scarred veterans of World War II returned Sunday to a desolate valley where they trained six decades ago.
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The explosion opened fresh wounds in a community scarred by an accident two months ago that claimed more than 100 lives.
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Tales of horror emerge from the refugee camp where fighting stopped temporarily after three bloody days
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NEW YORK  - People with ongoing stress in their lives are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress symptoms after experiencing a traumatic event, a new study shows.
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by JEREMY REDMON of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Mosul, Iraq. Two GIs desperately carry their wounded buddy between them, dragging him from the shattered remains of what had been a bustling mess hall in Iraq.
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"Ever seen someone have their chest cracked," one of the medics asked me on my first day in a combat hospital here in Iraq.