Military burn unit filled with pain hope humor
The News Review:
- Military burn unit filled with pain hope humor
- Police search for man who stabbed gunman
- Sunday 15/07/07 Tin Pan Alley Festival @ Denmark Street London
Military burn unit filled with pain hope humor
San Diego Union Tribune – Jul 15, 2007
The Army staff sergeant was wounded when a 500-pound bomb exploded under his Bradley as he was crossing a bridge in Iraq. He was burned over 79 percent of his body. Since then he has endured 34 surgeries including grafts over his entire body eye operations and holes drilled through his lower right leg bones and heel and metal rods inserted to stabilize them. “You start thinking what did I do to deserve this?” says Edwards 36 who also served in the Marines. “It really tests your faith. Not only that you're really thinking: What did my family do to deserve this?”Some days he says “I just… “They become your friends. ”ne of his first patients was a severely burned Marine. The men shared the same dry wit and taste in rock music. When the Marine was about to be discharged Elder invited him over. Elder prepared his older son then 3 knowing he might be frightened by the Marine's disfigured face. Instead the little boy was fascinated by his prosthetic arm and asked “Are you a robot?”“Sort of” the Marine replied. After that Elder's son joyfully squealed the Marine's name every time he visited.
Police search for man who stabbed gunman
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Jul 15, 2007
“They are currently unaware of their mother’s death” the statement says. Thieves take bronze plaques from graves Green Bay – Brown County officials think high copper prices are motivating thieves to steal bronze plaques from veterans’ graves. “What type of character would do that?” said Mary Lou Coleman death benefits specialist at the Brown County Veterans Services office. Authorities think thieves are selling the copper-based metal for scrap. The price of copper has tripled in the last year because of an ongoing depletion of inventories and mining labor strikes. Copper sells for about $3.
Sunday 15/07/07 Tin Pan Alley Festival @ Denmark Street London
Gigwise – Jul 15, 2007
Yes that right folks the great British summer is at last with us and July?s blue skies are out in force. pening the day and giving people a reason to be standing in a blocked off half deserted London Street at 11 ?clock on a Sunday morning are My Device. And a jam packed thirty minute set loaded with their signature moody pounding energy and exuberance including ?Eat Lead? and crowd pleasers ?Slamming Doors? and ?Fountain f Youth? complete with stop start punctuation and continuous confidence smashes any hopes that the local residents may have held for a long and lazy lye in much to the delight of the music hungry and plain curious passers by. Next up and playing a somewhat cut short set are Leicester hardcore three piece Herra Hidro. They?ve got the ability to produce an undeniably big sound but unfortunately flaunt a somewhat limited repertoire and following My Device proves to be a difficult task. In fact it?s a bit of a non-starter. That aside their all out no holds barred audio assault including the crashing drums of their new single ?Up Against The Bat? manage to coax a small reaction from a similarly small crowd… For the rest of the bands on today?s bill this performance is going to be extremely difficult if not impossible to follow. With a view to clearing the bar that TPRC have just raised are Sunset Cinema Club. Experimental indie sensibilities post rock attitude a good old fashioned sense of humour (?Thank you for turning up to the celebration of Bernard Manning?s death?) and a skinfull of booze all make for a good combination and increase the pace of TPA 2007. Shared vocal duties and a great bouncing dynamic encourage pockets of dancing in the by now packed crowd with future if not current myspace hits including the drum ?n? bass metal infused ?Confectionary Hell? eighties funk laced ?Sunday Best? and the angry ?Bus Stop Girls?. Throw in some sleazy schizophrenic punk and dirty bass lines and you?ve all the trappings of a great set and more importantly yet another fantastic and largely undiscovered band that?s shouting out to be heard.