"I have never seen myself as seriously wounded," says Giles Duley, a photographer who became a triple amputee from Afghanistan war injury

From The NY Times:LONDON -- To the annals of understatement and optimism add this: the account of Giles Duley, an independent photographer, about the moment after he stepped on a hidden bomb while covering an American and Afghan infantry patrol. Mr. Duley heard a click and felt a flash of heat as the explosion lifted him into the air. He landed on his side on the dirt, roughly five yards from