ESPN magazine cover highlights Iraq war veteran.
By on Apr 26th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
ESPN magazine cover highlights Iraq war veteran.
The newest issue of ESPN The Magazine highlights “bionic athletes” in its cover story, looking “into the lives of athletes who represent the future of sports and prosthetics.” One of the athletes featured on its cover is Iraq war veteran Jerrod Fields of Chula Vista, CA, who “uses a leg prosthetic to play basketball.” The 25-year old Army sergeant, who has been awarded both a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, was wounded in Iraq in Feb. 2005.
Spencer Ackerman writes, “It confuses me that the actual cover piece doesn’t feature Fields (he’s going to the NBA tryouts? Kind of a good story!) but the cover is awesome.”
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As a Vietnam veteran, its hard to look, or read about wounded soldiers, as they TRY returning to civilian life. I know this is old news, but Bush, one day will pay for his folly in Iraq.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pmI’m glad to see such advances in prosthetics has allow these men to realize their dream in sports. That is fantastic that Jerrod is going to the NBA tryouts. I wish him the best of luck.
Good Job, ESPN magazine for featuring these men and their achievements. A truly inspiring story.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:34 pmTP,
You should provide a photo credit whenever the photo is a great part of the story. Thanks.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:56 pmIn context only in how the media covers wounded vets , I see one draw back from this and that is it’s making war casualties a little more exceptable . If the sycophants in the main stream media would cover or represent the most serious casualties such as the Blind , paralyzed , people who will never talk ,the the public would get a better and NEEDED picture of the reality of war .
April 26th, 2008 at 7:14 pmExcept you basically only see the successes of vets ably to SKI or run and not the seriously wounded , not the dead bodies on both sides .
Modern technology should be acknowledged and appreciated helping these guys , but the media in context of their jingoism , acting as sycophants for the Pentagon , should point out , this wouldn’t be NEED on such a massive scale if the troops were treated with respect BEFORE they are sent off to fight an illegal war for OIL .
You ” take care of the troops ” by NOT creating a manufactured WAR for some devious NEOCON plan to militarize the middle east .
What this story, and those like it, do is 1) give camouflage to the Regime and covers up enormous injuries and damages done to Murkins dumb enough to enlist in this clusterfoock, and 2) provide club with which the aschlochs in the Regime and outside can cudgel injured, damaged, ruined veterans who do NOT have the (personal and social) resources the poster-boy has. It makes it seem that, if a damaged vet isn’t able to go out for the Lakers, that they are somehow personally at fault for their injuries, or their inability to overcome them…
April 27th, 2008 at 11:58 am