SUNDAY

SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2006

THE LIFELINE

Rick Loomis Los Angeles Times

ONE IN 17,400: Army Staff Sgt. Vincent Worrell, 25, at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, after he was injured by an explosive device near Tall Afar. Surgeons say no wounded American in Iraq is more than 30 minutes from a combat hospital.