Leopards do that sometimes. They eat away the dead tissue if wounded seriously.

Luckily, she wasn't hurt too badly and after about 10 hours we released her.

A helicopter from Port Elizabeth was dispatched and it picked me up along the way. When we arrived, she had already been darted but was waking up.

One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.

We have lost over 2,000 of our best and bravest. Over 15,000 have been seriously wounded, ... We are spending more than $6 billion a month, with no end in sight. And this Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee refuses to even ask the hard questions about the misinformation and disinformation given to the American people, and the efforts made by the members of this administration to cover it up.

You don't hear as much about the very many who come back who are seriously wounded and permanently scarred. Our attitude should be: 'Anything you need, you've got it, buddy.