Re: NYT: The story of the wounded

[Carl Remick <carlremick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [Thanks to body armor, the proportion of the wounded that are amputees is
> supposed to be paradoxically higher, because without it many of them would
> have died.  I keep wondering whether the count of the wounded might not
> end up someday being the politically important body count of the 21st
> century, rather than that of the dead. Because in many ways the shock of
> young people adjusting to an amputation or mutilation is more affecting to
> people who don't know them than hearing that someone they don't know has
> died.  Also offers more possibilities for TV.]

Every war seems to offer unique horrors due to changing technology/tactics.
In WWI, trench warfare meant that many soldiers were wounded when they stuck
their head up and got shot in the face.  The French had a special term for
the survivors, the "faceless ones."  I saw photos of a bunch of them on the
Web once.  Memorable.

Carl

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