The boys' background was not sporting – their father was a lorry driver and restaurateur – and "Otte", who was called up to the German navy after his Kaiserslautern debut in 1942, finished the Second World War with shrapnel "in my entire body", but particularly in his right knee, after his ship was sunk near Cherbourg with the loss of all but 11 of the 136 on board.
"The Glass Agency," directed by Ibrahim HatellsKia, thelstory stofy of Abbas, a soft-spoken war veteran with shrapnel lodged in his neck.
WASHINGTON — The patient arrived in critical condition last month at the Bagram Air Base hospital in Afghanistan, with what American military doctors at first thought was an all too typical war injury: metal shrapnel from an improvised bomb lodged in his head.
He fought for the nation in three wars and carried shrapnel from one of them in his knee.
O.K., Fine seems to say, but tell that to the doctors with evidence of its ability to shrink tumors and ease the effects of chemotherapy; or to the seniors of Orange County who depend on medical marijuana to treat their arthritis, and the doctor who uses it to treat his glaucoma; or to the 30-year-old Iraq war veteran with the shrapnel injuries who thanks God every day for this drug.
Collins narrates her own story, touching on her early life when she picked up shrapnel during the war and was evacuated to Bognor Regis.
A few weeks before the sinking, the main street of Abasan Jadeed, on the eastern edges of the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, was on the frontline of the most recent war with Israel, scarred by shrapnel and bomb craters.
Admittedly, helmets did drop out of fashion between the 17th and 19th centuries, but steel helmets were reintroduced during the Great War to protect soldiers from shrapnel and synthetic helmets are now widely used by modern day troops.
In the words of the Jordanian daily Akhbar al-Yom, the entire region is approaching a state of "destructive chaos" as the "shrapnel of the war in Iraq flies in all directions amid Arab silence".
