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Iraq War Medicine
DECEMBER 2006
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Facing One's Fears
Photograph by James Nachtwey
The wheeze of a respirator greets Kandi and Jim Bouwma, who traveled from Racine, Wisconsin, to Landstuhl to see their son. Private Andrew Bouwma, 20, had been in Iraq only 13 days when a sniper's bullet tore into his hip. "We did a lot of praying on the way over and not much sleeping," Kandi says. "I prepped myself pretty hard not to cry in the ICU. All I was thinking is, Thank God we have you back."
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