Amputee soldiers ponder bitter-sweet price of survival (11/16/03)

Amputee soldiers ponder bitter-sweet price of survival
November 17, 2003
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/16/1068917671430.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true

Specialist Robert Acosta, 20, of California, lost his hand on July 13 in Baghdad when a grenade was thrown into his Humvee.
Photos: New York Times

Injured soldiers in Iraq are often surviving with missing limbs. Neela Banerjee reports from Washington.


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