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Miller. >> take care of yourself. i saw him over there in that wheelchair and i took another look at him and i said, look, man, what are you doing here again? im not supposed to see you again. sure enough, he had suffered another explosion injury. >> the doors have just shut on this air medical evacuation flight here in bagram, afghanistan. the wounded have already been loaded. you can see that medical staff is already taking care of them, even before we take off. we br to go on an eight-hour fl...

>> that is a lot for you to deal with at the age of 27. >> yeah. >> its hard. >> yeah. it is. but im -- id rather help someone than it be the other way around. thats how i look at it. >> as soon as the wounded can be stabilized enough to fly again, they leave germany and are loaded one last time onto a cargo plane for the nine-hour flight back to the united states. medications are checked and rechecked. more gear is loaded. turning this c-17 cargo plane into a flying intensive care unit. for thi...

And i just kept on yelling, "help me, help me." >> davis is on constant pain medication but still, doctors will try to get him out of bed and into a chair. he will fly home within hours. >> take him to the e.r. >> back out front with the teams who handle the wounded, specialist shiranda redden giggles about her new braces. >> can you understand me? >> but quickly this 27-year-old begins to open up. >> weve seen so many people with missing legs, arms, eyeballs, i mean, no -- its been crazy. >> sh...

And you can check out everything here. head to cnn.com/impact and check out the links here. theres one for disabled american veterans. and then theres one for the fisher house foundation, which provides families of the wounded with a place to stay while their loved ones go through rehab. and we also want to point out there are two great groups that create these. bring these in, these clothes i like youre going to see here. these clothes are for our wounded warriors. and theres a special group of...

Of all their possessions and then shot them one by one. the group does medical work. the taliban are saying that they were spies, and there were allegations they were carrying bibles. the organization says absolutely not. that the civilians working for this group were going to provide medical care for afghan civilians, that that is what they were doing there. don? >> talking this hour about the perils of war, barbara. you play a rprominent role for s this hour. whats coming up? >> reporter: well...

At legal zoom well help you incorporate your business, file a patent, make a will and more. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. so pay close attention here. were going to tell you how you can help our wounded warriors. youve seen much of these military men and women give of themselves. and weve made it easy for you to find reliable ways to help. so go to our impact your world tab here on cnn.com/impact. and you can check out everything here. head to cnn.com/impact and check out the l...

This private organization. the taliban are taking credit. a local police chief says that gunmen stopped the victims on the road in this remote area, robbed them of all their possessions and then shot them one by one. the group does medical work. the taliban are saying that they were spies and there were allegations that they were carrying bibles. the organization says absolutely not. that the civilians working for this group were going to provide medical care for afghan civilians that that is wh...

The wounded have been loaded already. you can see that medical staff is already taking care of them, even before we take off. we are about to go on an eight-hour flight back to germany. these troops are going to a regional medical center for treatment. youre going from bleeding to hugging your wife and daughters. theres a smile. >> its going to be awesome. you know? >> reporter: yeah? >> when youre near death that close, i literally thought i was dead when the impact happened. i thought i was de...

Eyeballs, its been crazy. >> she tells us these days, there may be as many as four buses of wounded a day. it used to be just one. she talks to the troops. >> one story i heard that particularly stuck in my mind was he said that he was looking out the window in iraq and the next thing he woke up he was here. and he had no legs. so -- >> that is a lot for you to deal with at the age of 27. its hard. >> yeah, it is. id rather help someone than it be the other way around. thats how i look at it. >>...

>> we flipped over. everybody had their seatbelts and stuff on. but, you know, we were in pain. i got out of the vehicle and undid my seatbelt and i just flopped on to the ground. with all the adrenalin going through me, i did notice that my legs were messed up. but i crawled as far as i could to the door. thats all the energy i had. and i just kept on yelling, "help me, help me." davis is on constant pain medication but still, doctors will try to get him out of bed and into a chair. he will f...