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Car bomb injures 1999 Archer City graduate

Apr-26-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

Paul Bublis II was seriously injured in the same attack that took the life of SGT Davis. According to the article he is expected to recover. Our thoughts are with him and his family as he starts down the long road to recovery. Updates will be posted at the end of this entry.

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By Michael Hines/Times Record News

Leisa Fudge was still wearing her light blue bathrobe Monday afternoon.

The Burkburnett resident hadn't changed clothes since 8:10 a.m. Sunday when she learned her son had been severely wounded by a bombing in Iraq.

Fashion statements just weren't on her mind.

From a phone call Sunday, she learned her son had third degree burns over much of his body. She learned a section of bone from his skull had been removed to relieve pressure building there.

She learned he would live.

She changed clothes Monday afternoon - 15 hours later - donning one of her son's T-shirts.

"I just wanted to feel closer to him," she said.

Paul Bublis II sustained severe head trauma and third-degree burns to his nose, back, arms, legs and lungs. He is expected to recover. Bublis could be taken to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C., but he will likely go to a burn unit in San Antonio on Wednesday.

The West Point graduate had been in the Army for less than a year. He was lucky. The Department of Defense announced Monday that another man had died in the same attack that injured Bublis.

Sgt. Anthony J. Davis Jr., 22, of Long Beach, Calif., died when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device - a car bomb - detonated near his Stryker military vehicle. Davis was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.

Fudge said she was told that her son's vehicle had struck an explosive and was then hit from behind by a car bomb. She said two soldiers had been killed and five others injured. Army officials would only confirm one death.

Bublis suffered the burns and a head wound. He also had shrapnel lodged into his elbow and hip. He is now in Germany and the head wound has stabilized, Fudge said a German neurologist has told her.

UPDATES:
Plainview native injured while serving in Iraq - Plainview Daily Herald


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