Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: letture consigliate per i guerrieri della tastiera

lettura consigliata ai quattro segaioli (keyboard warriors) che
ultimamente infestano questo NG
 
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040505-122404-2923r.htm
 Casualties of Iraq war can 'get to' U.S. medics
By Willis Witter and Maya Alleruzzo
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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It affects newcomers to war-trauma medicine, such as Maj. Wenner, a family
doctor by training. Until three months ago, her practice at Fort Sill, Okla.,
consisted of treating minor ailments such as the ear infections of soldiers'
children and the aches of military retirees
(..)
Bye
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3707499.stm
Colonel Paul Hughes, the first director of strategic planning in Iraq after the
war, whose brother died in Vietnam said: "Here I am, 30 years later, thinking we
will win every fight and lose the war, because we don't understand the war we
are in."

letture consigliate per i guerrieri della tastiera, quelli tipo
i "nostri ragazzi" possibilmente colpiti al petto in un campo
di grano mentre il sole e' alto in ciel etc.. 
http://www.freep.com/news/locmac/mckelv14_20040514.htm
Shelby Township man's new battleground is in the rehab room 
Losing hand, skills, control hard to accept for Michigan National Guard member 
May 14, 2004
BY KATHLEEN GRAY
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
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They are taking a break from James McKelvey's recovery at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in Washington, D.C., to attend a service Saturday in Ft. Walton,
Fla., for five soldiers killed while trying to disarm bombs in Iraq. 
McKelvey, an Oakland County sheriff's deputy, wonders why he isn't one of them. 
On Feb. 9, he survived the impacts of a land mine and two homemade bombs while
trying to disarm one of the bombs along a road 30 miles north of Baghdad. 
He lost his right hand; his left hand was mangled; his chest was burned, and his
eardrums were perforated. Twice, his heart stopped at hospitals in Iraq. 
McKelvey is among more than 100 amputees who have come to Walter Reed in the
last 15 months and among the more than 4,100 U.S. soldiers injured since the war
began. 
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tra l'altro notare il dettaglio, era boobytrapped, chi la ha messa aveva
studiato bene come fare il massimo dei danni, alla faccia del nuovo
acronimo IED (improvised explosive device)
On Feb. 9, McKelvey stretched out on the ground to get a better look at a bomb.
His body weight triggered a land mine in the sand. Moments later, the first
homemade bomb exploded. The soldiers knew McKelvey was hurt. 
They picked him up but couldn't get him in the back of their Humvee. At 6 feet 2
and 265 pounds, McKelvey was too big. So the soldiers placed him on the hood.
One soldier stretched over him to make sure he didn't fall off. 
"They tell me I was talking and saying I was OK," he said. "But they could also
hear me gurgling." 
As they began the 3-mile race to the base, a second bomb exploded. The soldier
atop McKelvey took shrapnel in the back and leg. Shrapnelpierced McKelvey's
helmet but didn't reach his head. Shrapnel severed the arm of the driver, who
hit the brakes. McKelvey and the soldier on top of him went flying. 
(..)
Three days later, Ruth McKelvey was in Germany. She barely recognized the man
she had met at a Roseville bar in 1996. 
He was unconscious. His face was purple. His eyes were swollen shut. Both arms
were bandaged, and seven tubes protuded from his chest, abdomen and throat. She
tried to wipe what she thought was dirt from his cheek. It was shrapnel. 
She couldn't see that the impact of the blast had compressed his organs to the
back of his spine. His lungs were bruised and filled with fluid. His temperature
was up to 104. 
The day after she arrived, surgeons popped a hernia in his stomach, releasing
the pressure on his organs. 
James McKelvey improved, but didn't fully awaken for six weeks. 
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His first memory after the blast was watching the show "Cops" with Leah, a
nurse. It was 2 a.m. in mid-March. 
"All of a sudden, I was really lucid," he said. "But one minute, I was running
around in Iraq, and the next, I was in a bed in Washington. It kind of freaked
me out." 
The surprises had just begun. 
He couldn't talk because there was a tube in his throat, and he was too weak to
walk. His left eye wandered, and his vision was blurred. 
Clouded by drugs, James McKelvey didn't know until March 20 -- his fifth wedding
anniversary -- that his hand was gone. He and his wife had just finished
watching the movie "Tommy Boy," and she was drifting off to sleep in the chair
next to his bed. He realized that one bandaged arm was bigger than the other. 
"Where the hell is my hand?" he yelled. 
"He kept thinking that they were getting ready to amputate his hand, not
realizing that he had already lost it," Ruth McKelvey said. "I must have told
him five times that he lost his hand . . . but he just didn't remember." 
(..)
He and his wife will come home in July for a visit, but will have to return to
Walter Reed. 
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard assured him a job would be waiting. 
"But I don't want to put someone else in a position where they could get hurt
because of my weaknesses," said McKelvey. 
And the pain that feels like all the missing fingers are folded over will
dissipate, said Smurr. 
McKelvey said he keeps reminding himself -- often with humor -- that he was
lucky. 
"Hey, I was just doing my job and . . . it was my turn to get hurt," he said.
"But where was my big white tunnel?"