Wounded Iraq veteran: 'I'd go back in a heartbeat'

Palm Beach Post ^ | 5-29-2006 | Ron Hayes

[AliVeritas]

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Jim Nappier was supposed to serve six months in Iraq, but his tour of duty lasted only 20 days.

"The first thing I remember seeing was a dark brown, like a mahogany brown," he says. "I'll never forget that. I never heard the impact. I just felt like the eyes had come out of my head."

Nappier's home is in Loxahatchee now — when he's not at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Riviera Beach.

Every May since 1868, Americans have remembered their war dead; first as Decoration Day, when the graves of Civil War soldiers were adorned with flowers, now as Memorial Day, the last Monday in the month.

We have no day to remember the wounded, even though we've had so many more of them.

[pissant]

May God bless this man, and all who wear and all who wore the uniform.

[Loyal Buckeye]

I wonder what he would say to Murtha if he had the chance.