American heads under helmets, a photo album

American heads under helmets, a photo album
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American heads under helmets, a photo
album
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Last November, we started accumulating photos of helmets
with American heads underneath them. Why? Because.We
have five pages of "Helmet" photos for you to browse. Some
will make you proud, some will make you sad, some will
make you laugh, some will make you all of that, and more.
They all reflect our culture, our people.
February 7, 2005
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Meet SSgt Jessica Clements, US Army, hero. While in Iraq, Jessica was
severely wounded by an improvised explosive device while traveling to the
Baghdad Airport in a truck. She was struck along the left side of her body,
especially at the hip and shoulder. These injuries alone were serious. But the
shrapnel and blast overpressure (detonation waves) damaged both sides of
her head and brain. We have seen a report that three large veins were
bleeding dangerously in her head. In short, SSgt. Clements was in very bad
shape. Following God's divine intervention to save her, Clements (left) walks
to the Zachary & Elizabeth Fisher House on the grounds of the Minneapolis
VA Medical Center, under the protective watch of her mother, Kim Wyatt,
who is staying at the house during her daughter's extensive treatment.
Physical, occupational and speech therapies are part of Clements' routine.
Photo credit: Jim Gehrz, Star Tribune, August 6, 2004, presented by the
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Star Tribune. Talking Proud also did a summary report about her. When
seeing what she has gone through, this editor doesn't know whether to chill
with pride or cry, so he does both.
Not "tongue and cheek," rather "tongue and ears!" Resi Stieger of the
U.S. sticks out her tongue while wearing a helmet with attached ears of a toy
tiger during the women's combined event at the Alpine skiing World
Championships in Santa Caterina, February 4, 2005. Photo credit: Wolfgang
Rattay
"If I have to explain, you would never understand." A motorcycle helmet
covered with stickers is seen on a bike seat during a Bike Week event in
Samsula, Florida March 8, 2005. Daytona Beach, Florida and the
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surrounding area host the annual Bike Week ten-day event attracting
motorcyclists of all varieties with over 500,000 expected this year. Photo
credit: Rick Wilking, Reuters
Sitting in dad's seat on a Huey. Kim Douglas Sistrunk was only a year old
when the helicopter her father, 1st Lt. Leslie F. Douglas, was flying was shot
out of the skies over Vietnam. His war buddies John Goosman, Randy Clark,
and Jim Coleman came from all over the country to be with her in Tupelo as
she took her first Huey ride—in the same seat where her dad sat. Kim said, "I
had lived with the pain of not having my father for many years, but I never
really understood just how my father's death affected his comrades. All that
changed when we sat together in the Huey and just talked." Kim's story
represents a lot of stories of children who lost their fathers in Vietnam. For
her, meeting the men who knew him in war brings answers and comfort and
a connection she's always wanted. And for the veterans themselves, it is a
healing experience they'd hope will come for others. Photo credit: Sarah
Beal, presented by "In the Shadow of the Blade."
Too bad, your editor is from Buffalo! Do you know, there was a time in our
lives when a four year old child had come to believe every Super Bowl had
the Buffalo Bills in it! Buffalo Bills' Willis McGahee flexes his muscle after
scoring his second touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Ralph
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Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005. The Steelers
won, 29-24. Photo credit: Don Heupel, AP
Son has lost his dad but wears his helmet. Eileen Bellew (botom-L) wife
of fallen New York City firefighter John G. Bellew, places Bellew's helmet
on their three-year-old son Jack's head as members of the FDNY salute
outside St. Margaret's of Antioch Roman Catholic Church in Pearl River,
New York, January 27, 2005, following Bellew's funeral. Bellew, a 10-year
veteran of the FDNY from Ladder 27 was fatally injured battling a
three-alarm fire in the Bronx section of New York City on January 23. He is
the 1,130th member of the New York City Fire Department to die in the line
of duty in the Department's 140-year history and one of three firefighters in
New York who died on January 23. Photo credit: Mike Segar, Reuters
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Mayhem on wheels. Manhattan Mayhem team captain Ginger Snap tightens
a wheel on her skate before the first ever Gotham Girls Roller Derby
exhibition bout between the Mayhem and the Brooklyn Bombshells at the
Skate Key rink in the Bronx section of New York, November 12, 2004.
Photo credit: Jeff Zelevansky, Reuters
Ya gotta make that gate. Bryna McCarty, of the United States, sets up for a
gate on her way to the 11th fastest time in the first training run for the Lake
Louise women's World Cup downhill ski race in Lake Louise, Canada on
Tuesday Nov. 30, 2004. Photo credit: Frank Gunn, AP
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Do not oppose my hand of vengeance A US soldier is seen with an
inscription on his helmet calling for vengeance in the former insurgent
stronghold of Fallujah, 50 kms west of Baghdad. it reads, "Death shall befall
those who dare oppose my hand of vengeance," followed by a list of names:
Lamont Wilson, Snoop Doc, Bear, Pickering, Slocum. Photo credit: Mehdi
Fedouach, AFP
Rockin' and rollin'. White Water rafting in West Virginia. Preesnted by
WVePostcards.com
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Hang on Sloopy. MotoGP rider Colin Edwards takes a turn at Sepang
International Circuit outside Kuala Lumpur on November 23, 2004. The
American rider is in Malaysia for a three-day test. Photo credit: Bazuki
Muhammad, Reuters
Those sailors get all the breaks! U.S. Magazine cover girl and model,
Leeann Tweeden, departs the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S.
Truman (CVN 75), in the Gulf south of Iraq, December 15, 2004. Truman's
and embarked Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3), enjoyed the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Holiday USO Show starring Former National
Football League Quarterback, John Elway, Television Personality and
Model, Leeann Tweedan and Actor Comedian, Blake Clark. The aircraft
from Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) embarked aboard Truman are
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providing close air support and conducting intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance missions in ongoing military operations over Iraq. Photo
credit: Mate Airman Kristopher Wilson, Reuters
Standing memorial to fallen soldiers. A U.S. Army helmet rests atop an
M-16 rifle in the center of a dining facility at the U.S. military base of Camp
Victory in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, November 25, 2004, as a memorial to
fallen soldiers. On a dangerous mission far from home, American troops had
a Thanksgiving celebration of their own. But this memorial serves as a
reminder of those who have fallen. Photo credit: Faleh Kheiber, Reuters
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