One soldier's survival story (photo)

One soldier's survival story

By John Boyle, Senior Writer
Jan. 3, 2005 6:57 p.m.
The roadside bomb ripped through the Humvee and the soldiers riding inside, tearing flesh from the bone and pelting them with hundreds of bits of shrapnel.

Jonathan Pruden, a lieutenant at the time and a former emergency medical technician, saw one of his feet dangling by a flap of skin. He knew he'd been hit bad and called for a tourniquet immediately.

Today, nearly 18 months after that attack in Baghdad, Pruden knows just how lucky he is - despite 16 surgeries, constant pain and injuries that still leave him unable to walk.

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