Know not, ask not.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

Vernon Loeb of The Washington Post has done the story on the Americans wounded in Iraq that I had expressed a desire to see in last month's Tilting. The number of wounded as of Sept. 2, when the story appeared, was 1,124. This is more than twice the total from the Persian Gulf War. One reason reporters hadn't gotten the story earlier is that the military downplayed it by releasing the number of wounded only in incidents that also involved the...