From A Decade Of War, An Endless Struggle For The Severely Wounded

Beyond The Battlefield: From A Decade Of War, An Endless Struggle For The Severely Wounded -- David Wood, Huffington Post

July 4, 2010, was a bad day for Tyler Southern. He dreamed he was with his older brothers, playing sandlot football, running and laughing, horsing around just like they used to when they were together as kids in Jacksonville, Fla.

In his dream, he was whole again.

Then he awoke in his hospital bed at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and reality came flooding back. Both of his legs and his right arm were gone, blown off in Afghanistan two months earlier by an improvised explosive device so powerful that only bits of his legs and boots were ever found. The explosion left one remaining limb, his left arm, broken and mangled.

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My Comment: Stories like this one makes me realize that one should not bitch about the troubles in our lives .... others have it much worse.