Adding Salt to the Wound
October 31, 2003
On Oct. 13th, the Washington Times reported a soldier as having said, "if one person dies, five or six are getting wounded....but people are only hearing about the one man who is killed.” In fact, as of October 30th the total number of American soldiers wounded since the war began has reached 2084. That’s 1745 wounded in hostile combat and 339 in non-hostile action. New Republic senior editor Lawrence Kaplan recently wrote on “America’s near-invisible wounded.” Bob speaks with Kaplan about covering the wounded and why the media seem to be steering clear.
