WOUNDED VETS SOLDIER ON

WOUNDED VETS SOLDIER ON
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 09/9/07
BY KELLY-JANE COTTERSTAFF WRITER Post Comment

ABOUT 90 PERCENT of the soldiers wounded in the war in Iraq survive their injuries.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that a new generation of veterans must learn to survive with extraordinary injuries — brain damage, multiple amputations, blindness and post-traumatic stress disorder so severe it almost seems visible, like a sizzling cloud of pain.
Wounded soldiers, and the medical professionals who treat them, speak of the day they were attacked as their "Alive Day," the day they nearly died. It makes for a macabre anniversary.

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