Posted on 08/14/2005 6:36:14 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
...After verifying her identity, ...man on the phone assured her that her son, Bobby Rosendahl, who was stationed in Iraq, was still alive. But he'd been badly wounded.
With that Saturday night phone call, life as Ms. Olson had known it came to an end. Her family's long, long period of overwhelming sacrifice was under way.
Bobby Rosendahl, a 24-year-old Army corporal (and avid golfer) from Tacoma, Wash., was literally blown into the air last March 12 when an improvised explosive device detonated beneath his Stryker armored vehicle. He remembers landing on his back, with fuel spilling all around him and insurgents firing at him from the roof of a mosque.
Ms. Olson, during an interview in Washington, D.C., where Corporal Rosendahl is being treated at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, quietly cataloged her son's wounds:
"Both of his heels and ankles were crushed. He had a compound fracture of his femur in two places. Three-quarters of his kneecap was missing. His thigh was blown away. He had many, many open wounds, which all have closed except four right now."
She paused, sighed, then went on: "His left leg was amputated three weeks after he arrived here. He's not willing to give up his right leg. He's hoping to save it. All he wants to do is golf again. But we don't know. He's had 36 surgeries so far."
When you talk to close relatives of men and women who have been wounded in the war, it's impossible not to notice the strain that is always evident in their faces. Their immediate concern is with the wounded soldier or marine. But just behind that immediate concern, in most cases, is the frightening awareness that they have to try and rebuild a way of life that was also blown apart.....
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The NYT continues its tradition of balanced reporting, showing all sides of the Iraq situation...cough...
These people at the NY Times suck.
And the point of this article is what? That war is a terrible, thing, people are horribly injured and crippled for life? That their families lives are turned upside down because of this?
Only liberals don't understand the cost of war, because they let everyone else carry their weight all the time. Everyone else gets to shoulder the moral burden, and the liberals get to drink their wine and talk about how imperialistic and fascistic the USA is.
This is the NYT anti-war anti-Bush agenda. All negative all the time.
These assholes have probably never read Bob Dole's book because he is a Republican, but it might have saved them from writing something that someone else has already written on.
Oh wait. That's how they get all of their material. This guy, Bob Hebert, is a flaming anti-american liberal. He is a featured columnist on Barbara Streisand's web site. Talk about hard-up.
Ann Coulter is right on the money about these sacks of crap called liberals.
The writer drools over every detail.
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