Sergeant Bozik - Update 12 - Time Magazine Article

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"Even knowing that I would lose three limbs, I would sign up again." - Sergeant Joseph Bozik, Time Magazine, Sunday, March 13, 2005

This week's Time Magazine has several articles about our wounded soldiers.  They are surprisingly good reads (if a bit short).  First, this article by Nancy Gibbs provides some context around the story.

The Lucky Ones
By Nancy Gibbs

You have to stand a ways back, but from a certain angle these look like the lucky ones. In any other war, they would be dead, having bled to death on the battlefield or died in a hospital from wounds so grievous that their armor could not protect them and the doctors could not save them. In World War II, 1 in 3 wounded soldiers died; in Vietnam, 1 in 4. In the Iraq war, the rate is 1 in 8. As of last week, just over 1,500 U.S. military personnel had died in Iraq and 11,285 had been wounded...

And here is the Time piece about Sergeant Joey Bozik and two other wounded heroes:

Three Roads Back

In an instant, their lives changed. Now a trio of wounded soldiers try to recover their futures

By AMANDA BOWER, CATHY BOOTH THOMAS/SAN ANTONIO, WALTER REED, COPPERAS COVE

SERGEANT JOEY BOZIK

What's Fair Got to Do with It?

Weeks after an anititank mine ripped his body apart, Sergeant Joey Bozik, 26, emerged from a coma to find himself surrounded by relatives and friends at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As soon as he grasped the extent of his injuries, Bozik asked everyone but his fiancé to leave the room. Although he and Jayme Peters had spent only a few weeks in each other's presence--they met via e-mail while Bozik was stationed in Afghanistan--they had made plans for a life together filled with travel and outdoor activities. A gymnast and exercise-physiology student, Peters, 25, had a full, active life ahead of her. Bozik, on the other hand, had just lost both legs and his right arm. So he invited her to walk away. "Things you would be able to do with a regular man, I wasn't going to be able to do anymore," he says. "I told her, 'There won't be any hard feelings. I will completely understand.'"...

Be sure to read the whole article.

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Sergeant Bozik - Update 12 - Time Magazine Article

"Even knowing that I would lose three limbs, I would sign up again." - Sergeant Joseph Bozik, Time Magazine, Sunday, March 13, 2005

This week's Time Magazine has several articles about our wounded soldiers.  They are surprisingly good reads (if a bit short).  First, this article by Nancy Gibbs provides some context around the story.

The Lucky Ones
By Nancy Gibbs

You have to stand a ways back, but from a certain angle these look like the lucky ones. In any other war, they would be dead, having bled to death on the battlefield or died in a hospital from wounds so grievous that their armor could not protect them and the doctors could not save them. In World War II, 1 in 3 wounded soldiers died; in Vietnam, 1 in 4. In the Iraq war, the rate is 1 in 8. As of last week, just over 1,500 U.S. military personnel had died in Iraq and 11,285 had been wounded...

And here is the Time piece about Sergeant Joey Bozik and two other wounded heroes:

Three Roads Back

In an instant, their lives changed. Now a trio of wounded soldiers try to recover their futures

By AMANDA BOWER, CATHY BOOTH THOMAS/SAN ANTONIO, WALTER REED, COPPERAS COVE

SERGEANT JOEY BOZIK

What's Fair Got to Do with It?

Weeks after an anititank mine ripped his body apart, Sergeant Joey Bozik, 26, emerged from a coma to find himself surrounded by relatives and friends at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As soon as he grasped the extent of his injuries, Bozik asked everyone but his fiancé to leave the room. Although he and Jayme Peters had spent only a few weeks in each other's presence--they met via e-mail while Bozik was stationed in Afghanistan--they had made plans for a life together filled with travel and outdoor activities. A gymnast and exercise-physiology student, Peters, 25, had a full, active life ahead of her. Bozik, on the other hand, had just lost both legs and his right arm. So he invited her to walk away. "Things you would be able to do with a regular man, I wasn't going to be able to do anymore," he says. "I told her, 'There won't be any hard feelings. I will completely understand.'"...

Be sure to read the whole article.

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