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PFC Randall Clunen, 19-years-old, an infantryman with the 101st Airborne stationed in Tal Afar, Iraq, a town near the Syrian border, was on guard duty the night of December 8, 2003, when a suicide bomber broke through the perimeter and blew himself up along with his vehicle. 58 soldiers were wounded in the attack including Clunen. The blast sent chunks of shrapnel into Clunen's face causing heavy bleeding and massive structural damage to his jaw and cheek. An emergency tracheotomy was performed so that he could breathe. He has had three surgeries and has several more to go. Photographed in his home in Salem, Ohio, February 14, 2004.

Spc. Adam Zaremba, who lost his leg in combat Iraq, photographed at Ft. Riley Kansas at the Cavalry Museum on base. 2004

Spc. Jose Martinez, wounded in Iraq, at home in Dalton, Georgia

Tyson Johnson III, 22, a corporal and mechanic with Military Intelligence at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, was injured in a mortar attack. He suffered massive internal injuries. Photographed at his home in Prichard, Alabama, May 6, 2004.

PFC. Alan Jermaine Lewis, 23-years-old, a machine-gunner with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, was wounded July 16, 2003, on Highway 8 in Baghdad, when the Humvee he was driving hit a land mine blowing off both legs, burning his face, and breaking his left arm in six places. He was delivering ice to other soldiers at the time. Photographed at home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 23, 2003.

Sam Ross, 21-years-old, an Army paratrooper and combat engineer with the 82nd Airborne Division, was gravely injured May 18, 2003, in Baghdad when a bomb blew up during a munitions disposal operation. He is blind, lost his left leg, a hole is blown through his right leg, and he lost the hearing in his left ear. He has shrapnel scattered throughout his body. He is frequently in pain and suffers from headaches. He has had 15 surgeries and at least five more planned. Photographed at his home in Dunbar Township, Pennsylvania, October19, 2003.

Platoon Sergeant John Quincy Adams, 37-years-old, father of two children and a National Guard reservist with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry, was riding in a Humvee early in the morning August 29, 2003, in the town of Ramadi, as part of a routine patrol and mind sweeping operation, when a remote controlled bomb exploded under his vehicle sending shrapnel into his brain and body. Adams remembers nothing of the day. He has metal in the right lower quadrant of the brain, rock and shrapnel to the face, several entry and exit wounds in the arm which damaged nerves and tendons in his hands and fingers. He is on medication for seizures, mood swings and depressions which leaves him drowsy and he speaks in a small lilting voice. He is not permitted physical activity as any fall could jiggle the metal in his brain leaving him without speech or motor skills. Photographed in his home in Miramar, Florida, with his wife Summer, December 18, 2003.

Spc. Luis Calderon, wounded in Iraq, with his young wife at the Tampa Veterans hosptial, Florida

Tristan Wyatt, 21-years-old, PFC, 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment, lost his leg in a firefight in Fallujah on August 25, 2003. Two other soldiers in the APC also lost their legs. Wyatt has undergone ten surgeries because of massive infections as a result of his wounds. Photographed at Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington D.C., October 29, 2003.

Sgt. Erick Castro, lost his leg in combat in Fallujah, Iraq. Photographed at Walter Reed Army Medical Cente in Washington, D.C. 2003

Spc. Carl Sampson, 36, an Army Reservist with the Mississippi National Guard 890th Engineering Battalion, was injured by a road side bomb September 12, 2003, in Fallujah. He lost his left eye, his face was shattered, five percent of his brain volume was removed and he was unable to talk or move for months. He has recently regained limited motor and speech skills. Photographed at the Tampa Veterans Hospital, May 17, 2004.

Specialist Frederick Allen Jr., 24-years-old, a machinegunner with Bravo Comapny, 1st of the 505th parachute infantry regiment, 82nd Airborne, was seriously injured when an RPG tore through his left leg and shattered his right leg during a firefight in the Sunni triangle city of Fallujah on October 31, 2003. His injuries have left him a near cripple with little use of his left leg. He has had 15 surgeries, 7 blood transfusions, and is on morphine for chronic pain. Married, a father of one child and expecting another, Allen was photographed while on leave from Ft. Bragg at his parents' trailer home in Pittsfield, Maine, January 18, 2003.

Sgt. Josh Olson, 24, of Spokane, Washington, assigned to the 101st Airborne was on patrol in Tal Afar October 22, 2003 when an anti-personnel rocket exploded in front of him during a firefight, severing his right leg at the hip. Photographed on the grounds of the Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington, D.C. April 24, 2004.

Sgt. 1st Class, Joseph Mosner, 35, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, was injured December 16, 2003 in Baghdad when a roadside bomb exploded. The blast ripped apart the left side of his face, his left ear and and took off his scalp down to the skull. He broke both of his legs, punctured a hole in his left bicep down to the bone, and sent shrapnel into his arms and chest. Photographed at his home on base at Ft. Riley, Kansas, April 9, 2004.

Spc. Robert Acosta, 20, an ammunitions specialist with the 1st Battalion, 501st Regiment, 1st Armored Division, was a passenger in a humvee outside Baghdad on July 13, 2003 when an Iraqi teenager threw a grenade into the vehicle. Acosta tried to pick it up when it exploded. The blast permanently mangled his left leg and ripped off his right arm. Photographed at his home in Santa Ana, California, April 13, 2004.