> On Sunday, The New York Times, which did not mention the total number
> of injured troops, did say that "For every soldier killed, Pentagon
> officials estimate, another seven are wounded."
Another way to put that is: an average of over 10 a day. And although it hasn't gotten a great deal of publicity, these wounded are more badly wounded than has ever been the case in the past, paradoxically because body armor and mobile medical care is so much better in the past: it means that many people who previously would have died survive. But when the armor protects their vital organs when a bomb hits their humvee, they end alive minus an arm or a leg. The main hospital they end up stateside is 30 minutes from downtown Washington, and many of them are young kids. It's a sob story that's yet to be written but could conceivably in the end have more impact than the tally of dead.
Michael