The Lucky Ones
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We name and honor the dead, but the wounded return home more quietly, privately. They are beginning to walk and wheel among us, visible reminders of the cost of war and the courage it takes to fight it. More than half of those injured cannot return to duty. Yet there are also soldiers so committed to their comrades and their calling that they have petitioned to go back to Iraq the moment they learn how to work a new hand, a new leg. And many who say, even knowing what they have to lose, that they would sign on to the fight if they had it to do all over again. --With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington and Vivienne Walt/Landstuhl
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