BOP 2005 Still Photo Winners > Feature Picture Story
- 2nd Place
- Jim Gehrz, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Staff Sgt. Jessica Clements, 27, is just one of the more than 10,000 U.S. soldiers injured (more than 1,300 have been killed) to date in the Iraq War. Clements, a former model and massage therapist, was critically injured when a roadside bomb exploded beneath the truck in which she was riding, sending shrapnel into the right side of her brain. She was initially given a less than 2 percent chance of survival but has since experienced a miraculous recovery. Clements, an army reservist from a suburb of Akron, OH., rests in her room at the Minneapolis Veterans Medical Center. Borrowing a rare, WWI battlefield technique, surgeons removed the right side of her skull in order to relieve swelling to her brain and stored the skull flap in a pocket they formed inside her abdomen.
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