AP: Comatose Ohio GI dies nearly a year after sniper attack

[Eugene]

Comatose Ohio GI dies nearly a year after sniper attack
Monday, February 26, 2007
Associated Press

Dayton -- A soldier shot in the head while serving in Iraq lingered
in a coma for nearly a year before his twin brother decided to
disconnect his feeding tube earlier this month.

Army Spc. Ethan Biggers, 22, a native of suburban Beavercreek,
died Saturday in an Indianapolis hospital 11 days after his feedings
were stopped. The decision fell to his brother, Matt, following the
death of their father, Rand, in a car accident last July. He had
initially made medical decisions for his son.

Ethan Biggers, a radio operator, was on his second tour of duty
in Iraq when a sniper shot him on March 5, 2006. The bullet
entered above his left ear and exited above his right, resulting
in a traumatic brain injury.

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At the time of his injury, Ethan Biggers and his then-fiancée,
Britni Fuller, were expecting their first child. Shortly after
his injury, the couple married with the help of a firm that
conducted the ceremony by proxy. A few months later, Fuller
gave birth to a son, Eben.

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[w8liftinglady]

1. God-how much does one family have to suffer?I hope they can heal..

[babylonsister]

2. Intolerably sad... nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. That poor family :^(

[rodeodance]

4. We had a similar troop death---in a Madison WI hospital--after several

months (? how long it was)---the family just let him go.
Head injury----not long after the war started.

[rodeodance]

5. "A bullet going through the head . . . you don't recover from that."

"It is the worst kind of injury you can suffer, a brain injury," said Matt Biggers, who joined the Army with his twin straight out of high school and completed two tours of duty in Iraq. "A bullet going through the head . . . you don't recover from that."

Through his treatment at a handful of Veterans Affairs and military hospitals, Biggers' family kept hoping to see positive signs. An occasional eye movement or facial expression would give them hope, but never led to the kind of progress that doctors said would indicate a recovery.

[Tsiyu]

6. RIP Ethan

:patriot: :cry:

[Botany]

7. Blessings and prayers for his spirit, family, and friends

Ethan Biggers :patriot:

Damn this is just too sad.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: