They suffer. Amputations, fractures, gunshot and fragmentation wounds, hearing loss.
Lacerations and contusions, concussion and traumatic brain injury, penetrating fragments and multiple severe injuries.
Many will not serve again. Some will not walk again. Not one will be forgotten.
Our country will take care of these Australians as they have taken care of us.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her parliamentary speech recognising the 212 Australian soldiers who have been wounded in the Afghanistan war.
(Source: abc.net.au)
