Triple Amputee Iraq Vet Stars On CSI: New York

Triple Amputee Iraq Vet Stars On CSI: New York


Regine Schlesinger Reporting
CHICAGO (WBBM) - A wounded war veteran from Rolling Meadows says he\'s finding a career in Hollywood. You can see him on tonight\'s broadcast of CSI: New York on CBS.
WBBM\'s Regine Schlesinger reports Bryan Anderson lost both legs and an arm in Iraq, but not his spirit or dreams.
Bryan Anderson says the star of CSI: New York, Chicago native Gary Sinise who won an Oscar as a wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet in the movie Forrest Gump, has told him, "You\'re the real Lt. Dan," referring to Sinise\'s Forrest Gump character.

Triple amputee seeking dreams in Hollywood

Triple amputee seeking dreams in Hollywood
By Robert McCoppin Daily Herald Staff
Published: 9/6/2007 12:02 AM

Bryan Anderson would love to show people what it's like for a wounded soldier to get back to normal life -- but he can't.
As he puts it, "I wouldn't call this a normal life."
It's not losing limbs in Iraq that skews Anderson's life, to his way of thinking.
It's his whirlwind schedule of television shows and films, meeting celebrities and constant traveling that's unusual for a 26-year-old guy from Rolling Meadows.
Almost two years after a roadside bomb blew off both of Anderson's legs and his left arm, he tells his story in "Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq," at 9:30 p.m. Sunday on HBO.
He predicts the documentary will hit home with audiences wondering what life is like for soldiers suffering traumatic injuries in the war.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=31590

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.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070909/ENT/709090318/1031

Gandolfini's 'Alive' honors war wounded

Gandolfini's 'Alive' honors war wounded
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By Gary Strauss, USA TODAY

Just days before HBO film crews were to descend on Walter Reed Army Medical Center to record the plight of the Iraq war's wounded soldiers, the Pentagon nixed the plan — fearful of publicity about to surface over lax outpatient care.
HBO's longtime documentary chief, Sheila Nevins, had lined up Sopranos star James Gandolfini and 24-7 access on the heels of 2005's Emmy-winning Baghdad ER. A dozen filmmakers were stationed throughout the hospital.
Nevins and Gandolfini were forced to Plan B. The result: Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq (Sunday, 10:30 ET/PT), a stark, intimate look at the physical and emotional toll for many of the military's more than 25,000 war wounded.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2007-09-04-gandolfini-alive-day_N.htm

Injured vets now battle for benefits

Injured vets now battle for benefits
By Anne Hull and Dana Priest
The Washington Post

This is the second part of a report on conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where the wounded who cannot return to battle struggle along with their families.

WASHINGTON — The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs of the 200-room hotel on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Oil paintings hang in the lobby of this strange outpost in the war on terrorism, where the maimed and the newly legless sit in wheelchairs next to a pond, watching goldfish turn lazily through the water.

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