Military Update: Uncertainty swirls around VA disability reform
September 14th, 2007
By Tom Philpott, Jon Hovde lost his left arm, left leg and two fingers of his right hand when his armored personnel carrier struck an antitank mine. The 20-year-old Army private was almost left for dead when a medic, checking for a pulse in the mayhem, found none in Hovde’s severed arm.
