American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: Sergeant Joseph Mosner (35), of 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division was wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad on 16 December 2003. Among other injuries, the blast ripped apart the left side of his face and took off his scalp down to the skull.

American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: Specialist Jose Martinez (20) of the 101st Airborne was injured 5 April in Karbala. When his humvee hit a land mine he was trapped in the explosion and suffered severe burns to his head, face and arms.

American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: Specialist Adam Zaremba (20), a field artillery man with the 1st Armored Division was injured 16 July 2003. While guarding a bank in Baghdad, a mine exploded, blowing off his left leg, and sending shrapnel into his his rear, leg, arms and hands.

American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: Tyson Johnson III (22), a corporal with Military Intelligence at Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, suffered massive internal injuries during a mortar attack.

American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: Specialist Robert Acosta (20), an ammunitions specialist with the 1st Battalion, 501st Regiment, 1st Armored Divsion. Acosta was a humvee passenger outside Baghdad on 13 July 2003 when an Iraqi teenager threw a grenade at the vehicle. Acosta tried to pick it up when it exploded, mangling his left leg and ripping off his right arm.

American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: Private Randall Clunen (19), infantryman with the 101st Airborne, was on guard duty in Tal Afar, a town near the Syrian border on December 8, 2003 when a suicide bomber broke through the perimeter fence, blowing himself up and wounding 58 soldiers. Clunen suffered shrapnel wounds to his face and jaw and required an emergency tracheotomy to enable him to breathe.

American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: Army Specialist Luis Calderon (22), of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, was a tank operator assigned to the Delta Company Fourth Infantry Division Forward Support Battalion. On 5 May 2003, in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit, Calderon was ordered to destory a mural with the image of Saddam. During the demolition, the wall crashed on the tank's open hatch, breaking Calderon's neck and severing his spinal cord, leaving him quadriplegic. He was photographed at the Veteren's Hospital.

American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: Private Alan Jermaine Lewis (23), machine-gunner with the 3rd Infantry Division, was wounded when the Humvee he was driving hit a landmine on Highway 8 in Baghdad. The explosion blew off both his legs, injured his face, and broke his left arm in six places.

American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: San Ross (21), an army paratrooper and combat engineer with the 82nd Airborne Division. Ross was injured 18 May 2003 in Baghdad when a bomb blew up during a munitions disposal operation. He is blind, lost his left leg, had a hole in his right leg and lost hearing in his left ear. He has shrapnel throughout his body. With already 15 surgeries behind him and five more planned, he is frequently in pain.

American military personnel, injured by insurgent activity in Iraq, re-adjust to life back home: Platoon Sergeant John Quincy (37), father of two and a National Guard reservist with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry. Quincy was on a routine patrol through Ramadi on 29 August 2003 when a remote controlled bomb exploded under his vehicle, sending shrapnel into his brain and body. He has metal in the right lower quadrant of the brain, rock and shrapnel to the face and entry and exit wounds in the arm, which damaged nerves and tendons in his hands and fingers. Quincy is on medication for seizures and depression. He is not permitted to do any physical activity as a fall could misplace the metal in his brain, leaving him without speech or motor skills. Quincy is photographed at home with his wife Summer.

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