AJC SPECIAL REPORT
CHAPLAIN TURNER'S WAR: Compelled to serve where the suffering was greatest, he headed to Iraq.
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By MONI BASU — Chaplain Darren Turner stands at the entrance to Ward 45-C at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with a special coin in his pocket and trepidation in his heart. He is here to see a warrior who only two months earlier was hunting insurgents in Iraq — and is now a man without three limbs. Spc. David Battle arrived here on Christmas Day, his legs and right arm blown off in a roadside bombing. On this dreary February afternoon, doctors still are not certain he will survive. David Battle is a trophy of war. That's how Turner describes the nation's wounded. Home on leave from Iraq, the Georgia chaplain did not have to visit Battle. He wanted to. He wanted to make this difficult journey before he must make another. ... MORE |
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