Yesterday afternoon, relatives and neighbors of the wounded boy gathered in his family's apartment.
According to his brother and others, he came back to Merced a deeply wounded boy, wild and angry and scarred.
Shulsky signalled, and the two men sprinted over to the wounded boy, pulling out medical packs as they ran.
Gone was the frightened, wounded boy brought home by Caswallon two years before.
A family with a wounded boy waited at a United Nations camp to be evacuated for further treatment.
She leaned down to the wounded boy: "Can you walk?
Driving home along an antiseptic suburban street, Faraday happens upon a wounded boy.
People dragged the wounded toward Army vehicles, and an American soldier carried a wounded boy on his back.
Still he charged on, roaring with every step, determined to get his wounded boys out of there.
It was the voice of a wounded boy lashing out at those he believed had wronged him.