A Year in Iraq

Back home, wounded grappling with the price

By Brian MacQuarrie

Globe Staff / March 20, 2004

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Marine Sergeant Jason Wittling remembers lying flat on his back, strapped to a stretcher in a C-130 cargo plane ferrying him from a military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, to the United States. A Humvee rollover in Iraq had left him paralyzed from the neck down, and now mucous fluids were collecting in his mouth and throat, ... (Full Article: 1674 Words)