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This soldier's spirit was not a casualty

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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U.S. Army Sgt. Wasim Khan has had 23 surgeries since he was

wounded in battle in Iraq last June. Most of them were to repair a badly

mangled right leg, which he says "looked as though someone had spooned out a

big chunk of it."

The two he had last week took four hours and involved doctors at the Walter

Reed Army Medical Center in Washington inserting balloons into...

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