We are now exceptionally skilled at keeping people alive, despite the most appalling wounds – one way in which the expertise of our surgeons has inadvertently helped make our presence in Afghanistan more palatable for the UK's civilian population.
In photographs of British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme, which started 100 years ago on 1 July 1916, we see men who are about to die or suffer appalling wounds.
Everyone was so kind, so inexplicably kind to the random girl who showed up, once with a horrible case of bronchitis and an appalling, mysterious wound on her leg, who took up a section of the hostel fridge, who completely dropped into their lives and tried to understand their rapid languages.
In 1854, inspired by reports of appalling conditions for wounded British soldiers in the Crimean war, she took 38 nurses to Scutari, in Turkey.
Take care of our own children, elderly, incapacitated, and the soldiers already wounded in these appalling wars--and don't get any other U.S. boys and girls hurt!
He trained himself to accept these abstinences in order to endure the most appalling fatigues, hunger, thirst, and wounds, so that when scouting or traveling where there was no water, he might still be able to exist.
By characterizing the Civil War as a national expiation for the sin of slavery, he wanted "to bind up the nation's wounds" and make some moral sense of the appalling losses on both sides.
"Dead and wounded lay on every side and the havoc was appalling;" one 12-year-old boy died instantly, shot through the heart.
The numbers of dead and wounded U.S. troops in each of these wars are appalling: almost 4,500 and more than 2,300 dead in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively.
In an account by an unidentified source published in an Ohio newspaper, "The ghastly aspect of the field yesterday, after the wounded were removed, and before the dead were interred, was appalling.
