After 19 months, the war in Iraq worsens: the article below is graphic, yet very important for Americans to read and thus understand the sacrifices our Nation's young men and women are making every day. "This is raw, dirty, gut-checking business," said Army Lieutenant Colonel Poffenbarger after a recent shift, his brown Army boots streaked with blood. "These are 19- and 20-year-old Americans. And they're really badly injured. It's something that really stays with you." Poffenbarger is a former Green Beret and chief of neurosurgery at the Brooke Army Medical Center at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas.

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