Pressure Points

In October 2003, two soldiers were changing a tire on a Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ballad, Iraq, some 50 miles north of Baghdad, when a sudden explosion caused deadly shrapnel to lash out everywhere. One of the soldiers, a 19-year-old private, was killed instantly. His comrade, a 31-year-old...

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