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I only have flashes of memory from getting hit in a roadside bomb attack near Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 4, 2005. I saw the concerned driver reaching out to shake me awake, but at the time I couldn’t recall who he was. With growing panic, I realized that I couldn’t …

We heard the explosion, likely a car bomb. There were many that day. Thirty minutes later, three Humvees came barreling around the corner of nearby buildings with wounded civilians on their hoods and packed inside. They pulled up to our trauma-stabilization point, a makeshift medical unit in an abandoned home …