by Adam Kaufman
Burned: Todd Nelson from Adam Kaufman on Vimeo.
Part 5 of Beyond the Battlefield, a six part original web video series about severely wounded soldiers coming home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I shot, produced, and edited this series for AOL Huffington Post Media Group in 2011. In their original form, these videos appeared with accompanying in-depth feature length print
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VIDEO: Todd’s speech at Community Bible Church – “Will You Be Ready For Game Day?”
VIDEO: Operation Military Embrace
Operation Military Embrace, Inc.
"Sharing the Cost of Freedom"
Remembering Vietnam, "OME" strives to show the wounded military how much the American people appreciate their service and their sacrifices, and to raise the public's awareness of the difficulties and challenges endured by our wounded military and their families. This is accomplished by personal "hands-on" support and by public-speaking
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BOOK: Beyond the Battlefield: The War Goes on for the Severely Wounded
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Battlefield-Severely-Wounded-ebook/dp/B006LLRR8U
Book Description
Publication Date: December 12, 2011
In March 2011, The Huffington Post commissioned its veteran war correspondent, David Wood, to document the struggles of severely wounded veterans, their families, and the medics, surgeons, nurses, psychologists and researchers dedicated to their healing. Wood spent
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Daily Mail – Soldier who survives suicide blast happy to be alive after 43 facial surgeries in last four years
Just barely surviving a roadside blast in Afghanistan, a U.S soldier received 43 facial surgeries in four years' time, today facing a new life and face, while thankful to be alive.
Five years ago, travelling in the city of Kabul, Army Staff Sgt. Todd M. Nelson's Toyota Land Cruiser was blown up, shredded, by a suicide driver's parked car.
It was 45 days before the end of his second one-year
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VIDEO: WOAI News – Skin regeneration brings hope to soldiers burned at war
NPR’s Talk of the Nation – In San Antonio, Wounded Troops Find Treatment
The San Antonio Military Medical Center is home to a cutting-edge prosthetic clinic and the military's only advanced burn unit. The center treats some of the armed forces' most severely wounded troops, and the state-of-the-art medicine developed there often helps civilian doctors provide better care.
As heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation
Retired Master Sgt. Todd Nelson,
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MSNBC – Faces of soldiers rebuilt through new program
By MICHELLE ROBERTS
SAN ANTONIO — Master Sgt. Todd Nelson lost his right eye and ear in a flash when a car bomb in Afghanistan exploded, sending fire up his arm and over his head.
Although it's taken years of painstaking work, the military has given him a bright blue eye and ear lightly freckled and pinked from summer sun. They're not flesh and blood, but the glass and silicon replicas
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