Alex LearyCraig PittmanTampa Bay Times In Print: Friday, September 21, 2012 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Story Tools Print this story Purchase reprints Contact the editor Email Newsletters WASHINGTON The e-mail was read aloud in a hearing room Thursday morning on Capitol Hill, bringing to life a soldier's words as he cited the very conditions that would cause his death. "As a brigade, we are averaging at a minimum an amputee a day from our soldiers because we are walking around aimlessly through grape rows and compounds that are littered with explosives," U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Sitton wrote to U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores. "The morale and alertness levels on our patrols...
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