Shaffer
05-19-03, 01:03 PM
In January, Lance Corporal Thomas Lowry IV, 21, was deployed to Iraq prepared for the worst -- and he saw it.
On April 10, his unit was in Baghdad when a suicide bomber explosion injured him and four other soldiers at a checkpoint. He is now home on convalescent leave spending time with his father in Williamstown and his mother in Clementon recovering from surgery.
"I don't like it, what we had to do over there, killing people is not a great thing. There was a lot of death. We saw things you didn't think you'd see in real life."
Lowry now has shrapnel in both of his legs and arms.
"It's painful," he said. "But the doctors said it would do more harm than good to try and take it out."
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On April 10, his unit was in Baghdad when a suicide bomber explosion injured him and four other soldiers at a checkpoint. He is now home on convalescent leave spending time with his father in Williamstown and his mother in Clementon recovering from surgery.
"I don't like it, what we had to do over there, killing people is not a great thing. There was a lot of death. We saw things you didn't think you'd see in real life."
Lowry now has shrapnel in both of his legs and arms.
"It's painful," he said. "But the doctors said it would do more harm than good to try and take it out."
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