'Alive' Iraq Vets Tell Why War Is a Different Kind of Hell

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"Everyone makes a big deal about your 'alive day,' says Sgt. Bryan Anderson, a 25-year-old former high-school gymnast who lost an arm and both legs when a roadside bomb blew his Humvee to pieces. "And I can see their point, that you'd want to celebrate something like that. But from my point of view, it's like, 'OK', we're sitting here celebrating the worst day of my life; great, let's just remind me of that every year.'"

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'Alive' Iraq Vets Tell Why War Is a Different Kind of Hell

Brad Oswald - Watching TV

YOU'VE heard it at least a thousand times before:

War is hell.

But you'll never hear it stated more emphatically, more convincingly or ...

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