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Among the Soldiers of Ward 57
Henry Holt
October 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0805078606
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
A powerful account of eighteen months in the lives of
three soldiers and a
journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed�s amputee
wing Time magazine�s Michael Weisskopf was riding through Baghdad
in the back of U.S. Army Humvee, an embedded reporter
alongside soldiers from the 1st Armored Division, when he
heard a metallic thunk. Looking down, he saw a small, dark
object rolling inches from his feet. He reached down and
took it in his hand. Then everything went black. Weisskopf lost his hand and was sent for treatment to Ward
57 at Walter Reed Medical Center, the wing of the armed
forces hospital reserved for amputees. There he crossed
paths with Pete Damon, Luis Rodriguez, and Bobby Isaacs,
three soldiers whose stories he learned during months in the
ward. Alongside these men, Weisskopf navigated the
bewildering process of recovery and reentry, and began
reconciling life before that day in Baghdad with everything
that would follow his release. Blood Brothers is the story of this difficult passage�for
Weiss-kopf, Damon, Rodriguez, Isaacs, and hundreds of
others�a story that began with healthy men heading off to a
war zone, and continued through the months in Ward 57 as
they prepared their minds and bodies for a different life
than the one they left. A chronicle of devastation and
recovery, this is a deeply affecting portrait of the private
aftermath of combat casualties.
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