Center for amputees fills a need (photo)

Center for amputees fills a need
Rate up from other wars; San Antonio unit opens
10:06 AM CST on Saturday, January 15, 2005
By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News

SAN ANTONIO – The driving force behind creation of the military's second amputee care center is demand.

Amputations now account for about 2.4 percent of all wounded from Iraq – a rate twice that of World Wars I and II.

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