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Fewer Dead, But The Wounds Are More Severe

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by RocketMan Tex, Dec 9, 2004.

  1. HayesStreet

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    Don't disagree with you too much except to point out that not all those being saved (that would have died in the past) are quadruple amputees. Many are surviving wounds that they would not have in the past because of the speed with which they're getting attention, ie a gunshot wound they would have bled out from without surgery. Others might lose a hand or a leg but can certainly go on and lead productive lives - much better than being dead IMO.
     
  2. 4chuckie

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    Where did you mentio ratio in your 1st post?

    Just admit you were wrong (in your 1t post) and move along.
     
  3. Rashmon

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    Agreed.
     
  4. GladiatoRowdy

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    As I did in my last post.

     
  5. ROXRAN

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    How can you be specific, when specificity is counter to your claim?...Andymoon ponders with blasphemous rhetoric...

    btw, I'm not being serious, calm down...

    Here is a severity in a wound, coupled by a greater severe decision...: (from yahoo homepage)

    Marine Chooses Wedding Ring Over Finger *Or* His precious is too precious to destroy


    VICTORVILLE, Calif. - When Marine Lance Cpl. David Battle learned he'd either have to sacrifice his ring finger or the wedding band he wore, he told doctors at a field hospital in Iraq (news - web sites) to cut off the finger.



    The 19-year-old former high school football star suffered a mangled left hand and serious wounds to his legs in a Nov. 13 fire fight in Fallujah. Battle, who is recovering at his parents' home in this desert city 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, came under attack as he and fellow Marines entered a building. Eleven other Marines were wounded.


    Doctors were preparing to cut off Battle's ring to save as much of his finger as they could.


    "But that would mean destroying my wedding ring," he said. "My wife is the strongest woman I know. She's basically running two people's lives since I've been gone. I don't think I could ever repay her or show her how grateful ... how much I love my wife, my soul mate."


    With his approval, doctors severed his finger, but somehow in the chaos that followed, they lost his ring.


    Although Battle was disappointed, his wife, Devon, said she was honored.


    "I can't believe he did that," she said. "At first I was mad when he told me, but then I realized how lucky I am to have him in my life."


    The couple, who met in the eighth grade, were married in June, just two weeks before Battle left for Iraq. He hopes to eventually return to the Marines, and to replace his wedding ring, but that will have to wait until he recovers.


    In the meanwhile, Battle's high school has planned a banquet in his honor next week.


    "We need to make more David Battles," said Daniel Pierce, the school's assistant head coach. "He is one amazing guy."
     
  6. HayesStreet

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    Yeah, right. A retraction Bill Oreilly would be proud of.
     
  7. RocketMan Tex

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    Why? Did he abuse women in the process?
     
  8. GladiatoRowdy

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    I clarified my statement and apologized for the overstatement. What more do you want?
     
  9. Sishir Chang

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    And here I thought we were trying to win hearts and mind and liberate them.
     

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