Show Doctors Abandoned Hope Hope But But Injured Vet Now Can Talk JAMESTOWN N. N Y Hell HeH nev nev- never never never er talk again doctors agreed after Richard J. J Werner 20 of James James- Jamestown Jamestown Jamestown town was wounded in action on a battlefield in Germany March 25 1945 but now Werner plans to try tryout tryout tryout out for his school glee club Seriously Se injured by a blast from froma a German howitzer Werner had a ahole ahole ahole hole in this throat severed vocal cords fractured and severed windpipe After lying in an army hospital for more than a month breathing through a silver tube in inserted in- in inserted inserted through the wound in his throat Werner heard a doctor say Were going to try to suture s ture your vocal cords fella Not much chance it will work but we may get a squawk or two out of you Three months ih ill a hospital in England and another at Fort Dev- Dev Devens Devens Devens ens Mass passed before a doctor removed the tube and asked How you feeling boy Okay Werner rasped with with- without without out thinking thinking and and then in a fever of excitement he croaked Hey Heyl I I Ican Ican Ican can talk |