HEROES IN THE NEWS (CONTINUED):
June 7, 2007
Wounded Rockingham soldier is evacuated
News Record - Greensboro, NC
A Rockingham County soldier injured Wednesday in Fallujah has been moved to a German hospital. Carolyn Sigmon, mother of Army Specialist Travis Sigmon, said her son's left arm had been amputed just above the elbow. He also has a broken leg and shrapnel in both legs and a shoulder...
June 3, 2007
N.J. Town Opens Heart To Disabled Iraq Vet
NBC 30 - West Hartford, CT
It's been almost two years since Army Spc. Jim Benoit, 24, was severely injured during his second tour in Iraq. Since then he's undergone 80 operations. On September 7, 2005 a bomb exploded underneath Benoit's vehicle, leaving him permanently disabled. Although he has no loss of limbs, his mobility is very limited...
June 1, 2007
Paul soldier critically wounded in Iraq
South Idaho Press - Burley, ID
A Mini-Cassia soldier injured in Iraq May 24 remained in critical condition in a stateside hospital Friday. U.S. Army Specialist Cody Sibbett, of Paul, was wounded when an improvised explosive device struck the Humvee he was riding in during a patrol mission south of Baghdad...
May 26, 2007
Local Injured Marine Receives Purple Heart
NBC 30 - West Hartford, CT
Cpl. Ryan T. Dion was injured April 25 in Fallujah by a roadside bomb on his second tour of duty in Iraq. He sustained injuries to his legs, face, and hand as well as nerve damage...
May 25, 2007
Iraq vet: 'My brain will not let go'
CNN
A year after coming home from Iraq, AJ Jefferson is still fighting the war in eerie nightmares about the bomb that left him and two comrades seriously wounded. The night terrors stem from the April 25, 2006, roadside bombing, which left Jefferson and buddies Sgt. Erik Roberts and Staff Sgt. Luke Murphy wounded and bleeding on the ground, and their vehicle on fire. The 21-year-old soldier has been diagnosed by doctors with several ailments blamed on the attack, including severe post-traumatic stress disorder...
May 24, 2007
New home coming soon for wounded U.S. soldier
Cape Gazette - Lewes, DE
Sgt. Jason Nielson was on patrol in October 2005 in Baghdad when a sniper’s bullet pierced his spine. Like so many other severely wounded soldiers, Nielson returned home to many months of painful therapy and the unknown of life confined to a wheelchair. But he also returned home to something he didn’t expect...
May 20, 2007
Memorial High School Graduate Injured While Serving in Iraq
WEAU 13 - Eau Claire, WI
A 2005 graduate of Memorial High School in Eau Claire has been injured while serving in Iraq. Specialist Nault's family says shrapnel entered his left temple, went through his frontal lobe and exited just above his right temple...
May 16, 2007
10News Examines Injured Marine's Journey To Recovery
10 News - San Diego, CA
Marine Cpl. Wilson Otero knows the meaning of danger. Otero escaped many blasts during his time in Iraq, except for the last one. “April 20, 2005, that’s when I get hit from an improvised explosive device,” said Otero. The shock waves knocked him unconscious...
May 10, 2007
Support strong on Maui for wounded soldier
The Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu, HI
Pfc. Thomas Ponce, 19, a 2006 Maui High graduate, suffered shrapnel wounds to his face and hands and needs eye surgery after a rocket-propelled grenade slammed into his Humvee just above the windshield Saturday in Sadr City...
May 9, 2007
Idaho Soldier Healing From Injuries
Local News 8 - Idaho Falls, ID
Chris Bybee's son was seriously injured while fighting near Falluja, this year. Bybee's only child, John, had only been in Iraq for 40 days when insurgents attacked him with machine gun fire. Snipers essentially destroyed Bybee's right leg. He's had a nerve transplant and multiple surgeries to heal the gaping wounds in his leg. His mother was with him in person for six weeks and in spirit from her home in Ammon for the past two weeks...
May 7, 2007
Wounded soldier starts new life three years later
Newsday - Melville, NY
Army Staff Sgt. Jason Pepper saw the rocket-propelled grenade with just enough time to push down two of his fellow soldiers as it screamed past. But he never saw the explosion of a hidden bomb only three feet away that blinded him moments later. Pepper's eyes were shredded by the blast and his arms and hands were torn apart. His body armor likely saved his life, protecting his chest and vital organs from major damage. Now exactly three years after he was nearly killed during an attack in Karbala, Iraq, Pepper is struggling to adjust to his injuries...
April 26, 2007
Van Wert man seriously wounded in Iraq
Times Bullettin - Van Wert, OH
Lance Cpl. Brian McGonagle was severely wounded in action on Tuesday while serving in Fallujah, Iraq. McGonagle sustained shrapnel wounds, two broken ankles, a broken arm and a laceration on his neck. His father said his son had to be stabilized in Fallujah before he could be flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany. McGonagle will eventually be flown back to the United States to another military hospital where his parents and wife will be flown in to see him for the first time since he was shipped to Iraq...
April 23, 2007
Brain injuries baffle war vets, doctors
Santa Barbara News Press - Santa Barbara, CA
Marine Gunnery Sgt. Bill Rosborough recalls with excruciating clarity when a water truck smashed into the building where he was preparing an Iraqi Army payroll. Explosives hidden inside the truck vaporized the wall of his office in Al Kasik, vaulting him into the air. Shards of glass cut him, and building parts crushed him. Back at Camp LeJeune three years later, many of Rosborough's visible wounds have been patched. But his brain still isn't right. ''I was able to do a million things before. Now I walk in the grocery store and I can't remember why I went"...
April 21, 2007
Injured Marine to recover in time
The News Sentinel - Fort Wayne, IN
A long rehabilitation is expected for Fort Wayne man, hurt twice in Iraq. Lance Cpl. Gary Huber, a 2006 Homestead High School graduate, remains hospitalized in Germany after the Humvee he and four other Marines were riding in ran into an Improvised Explosive Device in the Fallujah/Baghdad area Monday. Cheryl Huber said her son had two broken legs, shattered vertebrae, a broken ankle and second-degree burns on his arms...
April 20, 2007
Wounded soldier returns from Iraq
The Kansas City Star
Few people can boast that they’ve survived a bomb blast that set them aflame and left them clinically dead for two minutes. Staff Sgt. Bruce Dunlap can. Dunlap, 28 – who spent the last four months recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., after he was hit by an IED blast in Iraq, underwent 14 operations on his legs and hands, and he suffered a concussion. He says he still gets headaches and anxiety attacks and sometimes has trouble focusing...
April 15, 2007
Scars from Iraq
MSNBC
Facing the future: Ty Ziegel, Marine Sergeant.
Hidden Wounds: Steve Kraft, Army combat engineer and machine gunner.
Change of pace: B.J. Jackson, National Guard...
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