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Robert Darious Wood, Sr (1925-2003) Newspaper clipping about wounds suffered while in France.

Several errors in the clipping:
1. Fa Lawis should be FT. Lewis
2. 1043 should be 1943
France, July 1944. Dad was standing on the hood of a jeep tying telephone wires to a tree branch when a German mortar exploded. The next thing he remembers is waking up with his helmet full of blood and a medic working over him.
Surgeons removed as much shrapnel as they could, but they could not remove the piece lodged in his face, which had entered at his right temple. This wound locked his jaw shut, but one of the doctors, a LT. Wood, whittled a wedge for him to use to pry his teeth apart every day. Over the course of time and with the aid of this wedge, he was able to regain the use of his jaw muscles. He was ultimately sent to England for recuperation and, when fit, was sent back into combat for the duration of World War II.
In 1966, while undergoing unrelated lung surgery, doctors discovered another piece of shrapnel in his back that he was unaware of.

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