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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Death in combat hinges on the tiniest margins
Courtesy Jesse Holder
Jesse Holder, a 173rd Airborne trooper, was wounded in 2007 while serving in Afghanistan by shrapnel from an RPG round.
By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor
Four soldiers, four battles ? and, between them???four total inches separate the slim expanse between death and life.
One died because his armor plating wasn?t one inch higher. Three survived by that same tiny fraction, left to mull the unanswerable: "Why am I still here?"
In the final days of 2012, the somber tally of American service members wounded in action in Afghanistan surpassed 18,000 while the number of U.S. military men and women killed there eclipsed 2,040, according to the Department of Defense.
As Jesse Holder can attest, many of those 20,000-plus causalities are here ? or are gone???based on a cold geometric fact of war: So often, everything comes down to a single inch.
"I got hit in the neck and I thought I was done," said Holder, a 173rd Airborne trooper wounded in 2007 by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade while in Afghanistan. The round detonated just above and to the right of Holder?s head as he rode in the turret of an Army truck, patrolling a steep-walled riverbed.
"I said, out loud, 'Oh, this is it. I?m going to die right here.' Everybody in the truck was thinking the same thing because of all the blood."
He was airlifted to a makeshift hospital where a surgeon removed the metal fragment. The doctor then revealed that if the chunk had entered Holder?s neck "one centimeter to the left," it would have opened an artery. He likely would have bled to death in the truck. Instead, he was back on the line 10 days later. He never lost consciousness.
"After the fire fight," Holder said, "when you're back at your base talking about it, that's when it usually comes out: 'I was inches away.' You'll hear: 'If that glass shield hadn't been there, or if that tree hadn't deflected the bullet, I wouldn't be here now.'
"During combat, you try not to think about it. But I think that's why, when people come back, some have a hard time," added Holder, who recently published a book, "Chutes, Beer, & Bullets,"?recounting some of those close calls. "I've been good at compartmentalizing it, and not thinking about it. But I lost a friend like that. It was the one inch that killed him."
'It could have been me'
That buddy was Army Spc. Jacob Lowell, 22, a 173rd Airborne trooper who had been in Afghanistan for two weeks when his unit clashed with enemies armed with small arms and grenades on June 2, 2007.
Courtesy Jesse Holder
Jacob Lowell, left, is pictured with a fellow soldier. Lowell was killed in action after a bullet narrowly missed his protective armor.
"All my friends, all at one time, they got wiped out," said Holder, who was not part of that mission. "A lot of our guys didn't make it home. My good friend did die by a narrow margin. The bullet went right above Jacob?s protective armor."
The feeling dubbed "survivor guilt" is a sentiment that Dr. Harry Croft, a San Antonio-based psychiatrist, has often heard expressed during his conversations with more than 7,000 veterans diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
"I've heard lots of stories, including: 'I was so close, it could have been me.' For some, it's almost like they're saying: 'I feel worse about that than if I would have died.' So they bring home this terrible, burdensome guilt," said Croft.
Recovery can be helped by "learning to reframe that event ??not to forget it, but to be able to understand it in a different way," Croft said.?
Therapy can include coaxing veterans to talk about???and eventually accept???the notion that "in the heat of war, a lot of things happen, things you wouldn?t wish on your worst enemy," Croft said.
What's more, combat includes the mathematical equation that thousands of deadly projectiles are whizzing back and forth, up and down; some hit vehicles; some hit trees or rocks or dirt; some hit people, and breeze an inch past human flesh.
'There's a reason I'm here'
Former Army helicopter pilot Joe Baginski has?lived more than 40 years since a Vietnam mission during which he nearly was wounded or killed so often in the span of just five minutes, he can't even calculate the number of near misses. But he's put his own survival into healthy???and folksy???perspective: "I must have been smiling just right because I never got a scratch."
In November 1968, Baginski, then 21, hovered his chopper at about 75 feet in thick foliage as other men on board dropped crates of ammunition to U.S. soldiers who were running low on bullets amid a battle with a far larger North Vietnamese force. The helicopter's tail rotor spun inches from branches thick enough to bring down the craft. At the same time, North Vietnamese Army troops fired on the chopper. Bullets pierced the floor. The co-pilot was struck in the arm. A sergeant major was hit in the foot. The instrument panel and numerous gauges???directly in front of Baginksi???were obliterated in the barrage. When the ammo drop was complete, he carefully maneuvered the bird up and through the jungle canopy.
"I have no idea how many rounds we had hit on the inside of that helicopter," Baginski said. "But there had to be at least a dozen that struck that instrument panel and fragments were going anywhere. I don't know how close I came but it had to be pretty close."
For soldiers who beat heavy odds to survive harsh battles, finding deeper meaning in their post-military lives can help them deal with nagging wonders about why they came home when buddies did not, Croft said.
"They decide: 'I guess there's a reason I'm here.' That can be the impetus to move forward with life," Croft said.?
That's a sentiment embraced by John Bennett, who was dropped by a sniper's bullet in Iraq in 2005.?The bullet entered his right side, shattered two vertebrae, fractured a third, and cost him his colon, his spleen, half his pancreas and his ability to walk.
"An inch to the left, it would have deflected off my ballistic armored plate and I would have been fine. And an inch to the right, it would have hit my liver and it would have more than likely killed me," said Bennett, a former infantry soldier who lives in Cascade, Mont.?
"In the earlier stages of my recovery it was a daily thought: Half inch left and I wouldn't be in this situation.?And I still think about it periodically. But, I don't dwell on it," Bennett said. "I am a firm believer in everything happens for a reason.?I don't know what the reason was for me to stay alive and be in this wheelchair, but it was for something.?Maybe it was to help with articles like this that help others believe they can move forward, no matter what their situation is. Who knows?"
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'Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son ...
Posted on 30. Dec, 2012 by William Burton in Bio/Memoir, Reviews
New York Times journalist John Schwartz? book Oddly Normal?(Gotham Books) is about two straight parents? efforts to help their son as he deals with a complex of problems related to sexuality and developmental difficulties. At a very young age, Joseph is identified by his parents as gay, but the drama in the book comes from psychological and social difficulties that keep Joseph bouncing around from therapist to therapist and in constant conflict with the school system in the New Jersey town where his family lives. Joseph?s problems become more complicated as he attempts to deal with them on his own, even as he attempts to come out at school, eventually resulting in a suicide attempt and a new openness with his family.
Though Schwartz has noble intentions in bringing his son?s story to print, ultimately the book adds little to ?the gay-related memoir canon. In fact, most of the drama in Oddly Normal has little to do with Joseph?s sexuality. Persistent attempts by psychologists, psychiatrists and crusading teachers to diagnose Joseph somewhere along the autism spectrum give the book most of its dynamism, since the Schwartzes are from the start relatively gay-affirmative parents.
Indeed, the Schwartzes decided that their son was gay when he was a toddler, based on his penchant for dolls and glitter. Having accepted this fact, they spend much of the rest of the book waiting for their son to come out to them, wondering how to push him into accepting his gay identity, and fretting because he hasn?t come out yet.
Although it?s encouraging that there are parents out there who would encourage their children to grow up gay, I do find it quite bizarre that the Schwartzes decided their son?s sexuality for him. In fact, the book is stifled by a self-congratulatory tone that seems to be hinting that the ultimate in gay-affirmative parenting involves choosing for your child. This strikes me as especially odd given the emphasis gay communities continue to put on childhood autonomy?given the fact that so many LGBTQ kids grow up in homophobic or transphobic families. Should that autonomy only be something we fight for when the parents hate homosexuality?
Schwartz? spends a lot of time referring to, or trying to prove, the biological origins of gayness. While this might be an affirmative exercise for many, I found it a bit wrongheaded, since the author constantly shifts back and forth between talking about same-sex attraction and the fact that ?girly boys? seem statistically likely to grow up to be gay.
Partly a defence of his parenting strategy?Joseph?s effeminacy is what led to his and his wife?s pre-emptive acceptance of their son?s sexuality?and partly an education detour, this chapter could be useful if you have friends or family who need convincing that people have little choice over their sexuality. But the conflation of same-sex desire with cross-gender behaviour is not rigorously examined, and it leads Schwartz to misunderstand why some of Joseph?s peers tease him. Does it not seem likely that Joseph?s peers tease him for his effeminacy, not because of his sexual desire? In other words, that what John Schwartz calls ?sexual desire? is less of an issue (especially at this young age) than ?sexual identity??
This is the kind of discussion we don?t get in Oddly Normal. While this doesn?t discredit the book as a whole, the lack of discussion about this issue (which is the subject of David Halperin?s new book, How to be Gay?(Belknap Press at Harvard University Press, 2012) is just one sign among many that Oddly Normal comes out of a very straight milieu indeed.
The debate over the kinds of romantic relationships gays, lesbians and queers should engage in?or at least talk about in public?is ongoing. While the liberal LGBTQ establishment pursues marriage equality across the board, it also promotes a monogamous ideal based on straight norms (for better or worse). Schwartz?s book reflects this ideal. He turns to his gay friend Brian for advice about getting Joseph to come out; Brian in turn urges John to get him to come out while he?s still in high school, so he can ?get the raging-hormones thing out of [his] system at the same time that straight kids do? and thus avoid a ?never-ending delayed adolescence.? Reflecting on his own childhood, Brian writes that he wishes he had had gay role models: ?The goal would have been to show me that while sex may be great, relationships are better.? The gay identity he grew up into ?led him to anonymous sex for a couple of years after coming out.?
Though the Schwartzes do actively want to introduce their son to gay and lesbian culture?they take him into New York so he can visit a community center, and so forth?they don?t seem eager to have him exposed to much history or debate. This is finally the biggest flaw in Oddly Normal: speaking from a decidedly straight position, only rarely calling on gays or queers to talk about what it?s like to grow up in a heterosexual world, the book feels deeply cut-off from our communities, uninformed by our experiences. While Schwartz does give solid information about the social science on same-sex love, he?s not at all sensitive to the debates that have been raging among LGBTQ people for decades.
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Oddly Normal: One Family?s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
By John Schwartz
Gotham Books
Hardcover, 9781592407286,?304 pp.
November 2012
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William Burton is a master's candidate in English studies at Universit? de Montr?al, specializing in the relationship between gender, sexuality and the nation in Quebec nationalist and Black liberation writing.
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Los Angeles man charged with setting homeless woman on fire
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 24-year-old Los Angeles area man accused of setting a homeless woman on fire as she slept on a bus stop bench was charged on Monday with attempted murder and aggravated mayhem.
Prosecutors say Dennis Petillo doused the 67-year-old woman with a flammable liquid as she slept on a bench in the Los Angeles section of Van Nuys in the early morning hours of December 27 and then set her on fire.
The woman, who has not been identified by authorities, survived the attack but remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Petillo, who was scheduled to make an initial court appearance on Monday afternoon, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if he is convicted at a trial.
Prosecutors said they would ask that he be held on $1.03 million bail.
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[iPad Mini] Alternatives to Apple Smart Cover? (iPad mini)
Apologies for starting another iPad mini cover/case thread but I couldn't find what I was looking for in existing threads.
There are plenty of cases for iPad mini that combine front and back cover. The Invellop one seems to be a favourite. But I'd like the front cover to be detachable. For instance around the house I wouldn't need the front cover on it but when leaving the house I'd put it on.
There are also plenty of good back-only cases, some of which are compatible with Apple Smart Cover. But the Apple Smart Cover is generally seen as overpriced, and plenty of people have complaints about it (doesn't stay flat on the front).
So: does anyone know of any detachable front covers for iPad mini that could be an alternative to Apple Smart Cover?
I found the Macally Shellstand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b7Ghw1-0Co
but it seems pretty rickety.
Thanks!
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