http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082107E.shtml

War's Chilling Reality
By Bob Herbert
The New York Times

Tuesday 21 August 2007

Bryan Anderson, a 25-year-old Army sergeant who was wounded in
Iraq, was explaining, on camera - to James Gandolfini, of all people -
what happened immediately after a roadside bomb blew up the Humvee
that he was driving.

"I was like, 'Oh, we got hit. We got hit.' And then I had blood on
my face and the flies were landing all over my face. So I wiped my
face to get rid of the flies. And that is when I noticed that my
fingertip was gone. So I was like, 'Oh. O.K.'

"So that is when I started really assessing myself. I was like,
'That's not bad.' And then I turned my hand over, and I noticed that
this chunk of my hand was gone. So I was like, 'O.K., still not bad. I
can live with that.'