Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007
That was the day I thought, 'You're not only going to die here, you're going to be disfigured.'
- Spc. TYLER HOLLADAY
- a 22-year-old Army medic, recalling his first encounter with the aftermath of a roadside bomb in Iraq. The number of casualties and wounded in his battalion makes it the hardest-hit one since the Vietnam War