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Show The Wounded Come Home Last month a plane arrived in this country from the British Isles. It brought home a full contingent of wounded, one officer, of-ficer, twelve men and a Navy Seabee. Several of the men were part of the first contingent that went ashore on D-day, including a paratrooper who broke his leg landing, several were wounded before they reached the shore and others were hit by snipers as they advanced in battle. One of the paratroopers, hit by a mortar shell six hours after he made a safe parachute landing, land-ing, was captured by the Germans Ger-mans and later recaptured by A-mericans. A-mericans. Another had his broken bro-ken leg set by enemy soldiers but was liberated by an advancing advanc-ing patrol the next day. The stream of wounded begins to flow homeward. The men will be distributed to general hospitals hos-pitals closest to their places of residence as soon as their condition con-dition permits. Here, it is hoped, they will recover from their battle bat-tle wounds. Nobody knows how long the flow of casualties will last, or the number of Americans who will come home wounded. They epresent men vno have suffered in the servie of their fellowmen and they deserve the consideration considera-tion and prayers of all Ameri cans. |