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| Wounded in Iraq, Healing at Home |
| 2007-03-27 |
| From my home town paper, go read the enitre piece.In a phone interview, Price relived the day he survived the tremendous blast. “We were just out on patrol, an IED went off on the front right side under my truck and it threw the truck 15 feet in the air,” said Price. “I was knocked out. It threw me out about 25-30 feet. I woke up and both my legs hurt pretty bad. “We had a medic on scene and they Medivaced me out via Blackhawk helicopter - I was out of there within 15 minutes,” Price continued. “Once they got me on morphine, it didn't hurt as much, so that was good.” However, right after the blast, Price admits he thought he might not even make the medical helicopter ride as he laid on the ground. “When I woke up, I really couldn't see ... I couldn't see my legs, I could just see the Humvee,” Price said. “It was about 20 or 30 feet away from me and half the front end of the vehicle was gone. I wasn't sure if I was going to make it, but I knew I wasn't ready to give up yet.” As Price was coming to, he only could tell of his injuries, “I knew it might be pretty serious ... but all I could do is guess - and all I could guess was that I wasn't doing too good!” Price had two things on him. A small Catholic Bible that his stepfather, Donald Kane had given him for Christmas, and a coin for luck his wife Rachel gave him. He clutched the coin and medics were at his side. The first thing he did was to ask how everyone else in the vehicle was, and he said he could see they were fine. “I was still pretty aware of my surroundings, they didn't give me the morphine until I flew out of Kirkuk airbase,” said Price. “So even though I was in a tremendous amount of pain, I knew what was happening.” Price broke three bones in the top of his foot, broke his heel, had a hurt knee and wrist, bruised ribs, swollen neck from the helmet and a large scrape on his neck from the strap. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #4 Amen, Besoeker |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-27 10:52 |
| #3 Thank you Besoeker and company. Good luck and good hunting. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-03-27 10:12 |
| #2 Exactly what we want to know, Besoeker. Thank you. I hope you and your youngsters are taking great pleasure in the new ROEs, and that y'all have a piece of the rising death toll of the murderous scum... or something equally satisfying. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-27 10:07 |
| #1 There is an absolutely huge amount of effort going into finding and preventing these IED and Vehicle Borne IED (VBIED) incidents. The death toll of the murderous scum that are emplanting them rises weekly. Just thought you would want to know. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-03-27 08:58 |