Disabled American Veterans: Army Veteran Nearly Killed in Iraq Personifies Determination
April 04, 2024
April 04, 2024
ERLANGER, Kentucky, April 4 -- Disabled American Veterans issued the following news:
By Brian Buckwalter
When Army Veteran Erik Castillo came out of a nearly two-month coma, he was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.--more than 6,000 miles from where he had been wounded in Baghdad.
He was seven months into his deployment in 2004 and standing next to his Humvee when a nearby explosion hurled shrapnel through the right side of his head and . . .
By Brian Buckwalter
When Army Veteran Erik Castillo came out of a nearly two-month coma, he was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.--more than 6,000 miles from where he had been wounded in Baghdad.
He was seven months into his deployment in 2004 and standing next to his Humvee when a nearby explosion hurled shrapnel through the right side of his head and . . .