The
Boston bombing is starting to look as phoney as
Sandy Hook. Private source who was wounded in Vietnam. Read carefully
to what he is saying in print and please share with as many as you can.
Thank you.
Dr. James P. Wickstrom
Dr. James P. Wickstrom
I've seen, and treated a significant number of blast, and fragmentation
injuries. The leg injury shown is not
typical of fragmentation, but rather of high velocity blast. The bombs in Boston
were low velocity, and in the videos I saw, they did not
propagate a blast wave. In fact, they barely fluttered the
flags immediately adjacent to the blast. Also, the wounds indicate a directional blast as
noted by the lack of damage to the victim above his knees. No blood,
scorching or burned/torn clothing. The devices purported to have caused the
injuries were not directional. Ergo, I do not buy the blast
injury.
The victim of this type of injury will go into shock almost instantly.
Although the arteries tend to retract after a blast injury the blood loss would
be massive. Without proper blood loss prevention he would have been dead in 5
minutes or less. In the instance of a cleanly severed femoral artery death
usually occurs in under 2 minutes.
When I was hit, during my first tour in Nam, both arteries in my left
forearm were totally destroyed. I was lucid, applied my own tourniquet, and made
it to the medevac on my own feet. However, I was going into shock within 10
minutes. Had the medics not treated me for shock I would have been in a coma by
the time I reached the hospital. My wounds were minor compared to the victim in
the photos, and did not involve blast trauma. Speaking of blast trauma; he is
not bleeding from the ears, and if the explosion had been as strong as reported
he would be.
The responders, in this incident, are not
treating the amputee for shock. He is not the first to be
evacuated, and they take him out in a WHEELCHAIR. The initial treatment for
shock is always to lower the head, and heart below the extremities. He would
have had tourniquets on both legs, and after an initial bandaging of the wounds,
most likely MAST trousers to assist in controlling the bleeding, and to force
blood from his legs to his heart. The medics would have started 2 I.V.s, and run
blood expanders wide open to keep his veins from collapsing. They would have
carried him out on a gurney or stretcher not SITTING UP in a WHEELCHAIR.
Notice the "victims" color: his lips are
pink. Notice his expression; he is alert, and does not appear to be in
pain. Men have the look of death after this traumatic
an injury, and their expression is one of shock, pain, and horror. They are
usually marginally conscious, and not capable of holding their head erect.
I've seem it more often than I care to recall.
This man, in my opinion, is not injured.
Some other observations: Real blood isn't that red. For a
bomb that was supposed to have produced extensive blast, and fragmentation
you will notice that only one window, directly across from the blast, is
broken. A massive explosion with extensive fragmentation, but only
one broken window? Now, have you noticed that the glass from the
broken window is in the street? It leaves us to ponder just exactly
how in hell the glass fragments were propagated in a direction opposite the
direction of the blast.
Things just don't seem right.
Bob
