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SOCIETY AND HEROIC MEDICAL CARE

Hopefully, this chapter and the next will cause you to stop and think about the questions I posed up to this
point as well as a few more below.

Air Force Times, March 25, 2013: Better Care meant more warriors survived wounds. “Iraq’s Wounded
by Service:

Army: 22,512
Marine Corps: 8,625
Air Force: 448
Navy: 636

But improving medical care for wounded warriors is one thing; improving the bureaucracy that ultimately
delivers that care has proved to be a huge challenge.”

You are encouraged to visit: www.airforcetimes.com to read the full story.

I also hope you will participate and learn what it is like, at least in a small way, to be a disabled person.

The stigma associated with being physically or mentally disabled in this country is reprehensible.

People with disabilities are often invisible to able-bodied people.

We read the accounts, we watch the television programs, the cable news “live shots” and we believe the
military medical personnel is performing heroic acts to save a soldier’s, arms, legs, and life.

Are they really doing the right thing? Should we (the Veteran soldier) be grateful?

Or, should we challenge the true result?

Is it better to be sent home without the ability to care for yourself?

Did the soldier have any say as to what his or her preference might be in the event of such a tragedy?

We are told of the latest and greatest prosthetics.

We are told these devices will enable the wounded warrior
to live a normal life.

Is life “normal” without the ability to care for yourself?