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4A WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 TIMES RECORDER WHITE COTTAGE William (Bill) Nelson King, 81, of Roseville, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving and de- voted wife and family on August 31, 2023. He was born on December 9, 1941, in Caldwell, OH, son of the late William (Bill) and Frances (Fo- gle) King. Bill was a member of Coburn Unit- ed Methodist Church and attended Trinity Full Gospel Church, worked at Anchor Hocking Glass Co. before retiring, and devoted his life to his true passion, farming. Some of his most favorite activities were riding around the farm checking the cattle with this wife, watching the newborn calves running around, or simply looking out over the together, as they have been inseparable for years.

He was also incredibly proud of each of his children and bragged to anyone that would listen. His legacy to his family will forever be the importance of hard work, perseverance and following your passion to do what you love. Bill will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Dolores (Yarnell) King; daughter, sons, son-in-law, and daughters-in-law; Sheri (King) and Brian Harper of Cincinnati; Glenn and Amy (Neff) King of and JR and Leslie (Dickerson) King of He enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, Autumn (King) Dent and her husband Andrew Dent; Summer King and her Logan Holland; James (JW) King; Jace King; Ken (Lane) Thurman; and Logan Thurman. He is also survived by 2 great-grandchildren: Rowan Dent and Dawson Dent. Friends and family may call on Tuesday, September 5, 2023 from p.m.

at the William Thompson and Son Funeral Home in White Cottage. Funeral services and a celebration of life will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wed. Sept. 6, 2023 at the funeral home with Pastor Donny Rowland Burial will follow at Sharon Cemetery in Sharon, OH.

In lieu of memorial contributions are suggested to a charitable organization of the choice. William Nelson King William Nelson 81 White Cottage 31-Aug William Thompson Son 06-Sep 10 AM William Thompson Son Sharon Cemetery DEATH NOTICES Additional information in display obituaries Obituaries appear in print and online at zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/obituaries Name Age Town, State Death Date Arrangements Service Time Service Location Interment Obituaries Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ESKIMO OVERB LVIV, Ukraine The small band of soldiers gather outside to share ciga- rettes and war stories, sometimes casu- ally and sometimes with a degree of tes- tiness over recollections made unreli- able by their last day the day the war took away their limbs. Some clearly remember the moment they were hit by anti-tank mines, aerial bombs, a missile, a shell. For others, the gaps in their memories loom large.

Vitaliy skinny body is a web of scars that end with an amputation above the knee. During six weeks in a coma, Bilyak underwent more than 10 surgeries on including his jaw, hand and heel to recover from injuries he re- ceived April 22 after driving over a pair of anti-tank mines. I woke up, I felt like I was born again and returned from the said Bilyak, who is just beginning his path to rehabilitation. He does not yet know when receive a prosthesis, which must be individually to each patient. Ukraine is facing a future with up- ward of 20,000 amputees, many of them soldiers who are also psychological trauma from their time at the front.

Europe has experienced noth- ing like it since World War and the United States not since the Civil War. Mykhailo Yurchuk, a paratrooper, was wounded in the weeks of the war near the city of Izium. His comrades loaded him onto a ladder and walked for an hour to safety. All he could think about at the time, he said, was ending it all with a grenade. A medic refused to leave his side and held his hand the en- tire time as he fell unconscious.

When he awoke in an intensive care unit the medic was still there. you for holding my Yurchuk told him. I was afraid pull the the medic replied. left arm was gone below the elbow and his right leg above the knee. In the 18 months since, Yurchuk has regained his equilibrium, both mentally and physically.

He met the woman who would become his wife at the rehabilita- tion hospital, where she was a volun- teer. And he now cradles their infant daughter and takes her for walks with- out the slightest hesitation. His new hand and leg are in stark black. Yurchuk has himself become the chief motivator for new arrivals from the front, pushing them as they heal from their wounds and teaching them as they learn to live and move with their new disabilities. That kind of connec- tion will need to be replicated across Uk- raine, formally and informally, for thou- sands of amputees.

whole locomotive system has to be reoriented. They have a whole re- distribution of weight. a really complicated adjustment to make and it needs to be made with another human said Dr. Emily Mayhew, a med- ical historian at Imperial College who specializes in blast injuries. There are not nearly enough pros- thetic specialists in Ukraine to handle the growing need, said Olha Rudneva, the head of the Superhumans center for rehabilitating Ukrainian military ampu- tees.

Before the war, she said, only people in all of Ukraine had formal reha- bilitation training for people with arm or hand amputations, which in normal cir- cumstances are less common than legs and feet as those sometimes are ampu- tated due to complications with diabe- tes or other illnesses. Rudneva estimated that 20,000 Uk- rainians have endured at least one am- putation since the war began. The gov- ernment does not say how many of those are soldiers, but blast injuries are among the most common in a war with a long front line. Rehabilitation centers Unbroken and Superhumans provide prostheses for Ukrainian soldiers with funds provided by donor countries, charity organiza- tions and private Ukrainian companies. donors are not willing to pro- vide military aid to Ukraine but are will- ing to fund humanitarian said Rudneva.

Some of the men undergoing reha- bilitation regret now out of the war, including Yurchuk and Valentyn Lytvynchuk. Lytvynchuk, a former battalion com- mander, draws strength from his family, especially his 4-year-old daughter who etched a unicorn on his prosthetic leg. He headed recently to a military training ground to see what he could still do. realized unrealistic. I can jump into a trench, but I need four-wheel drive to get out of it.

And when I move a child could catch he said. Then, after a moment, he added: the prosthesis falls The hardest part for many amputees is learning to live with the pain pain from the prosthesis, pain from the inju- ry itself, pain from the lingering of the blast shockwave, said Mayhew, who has spoken with several hundred military amputees over the course of her career. Many are dealing with ment and the ensuing cosmetic surger- ies. comorbidity of PTSD and blast injury and pain those are very to she said. people have a physical injury and they have a psy- chological injury that goes with it, those things can never be separated.

For the severely injured, rehabilita- tion could take longer than the war ulti- mately lasts. The cosmetic surgeries are crucial to allowing the soldiers to feel comfortable in society. Many are so that all they believe anyone sees in them. have a year, said Dr. Natalia Komashko, a facial surgeon.

need to do this as if it was due yester- Bilyak, the soldier who drove over an- ti-tank mines, still sometimes himself dreaming of battle. lying alone in the ward on the bed, and people I know come to me. I realize Russians and they start shooting me point-blank in the head with pistols, he recounted. start getting nervous because running out of bullets, and alive, I show them the middle and laugh at Ukrainian amputees face trauma More than 20,000 have lost limbs during Evgeniy Maloletka ASSOCIATED PRESS Ukrainian army veterans with amputated limbs take part in group rehabilitation exercises on July 24 in Lviv, Ukraine. The country is facing the prospect of a future with upwards of 20,000 amputees as a result of the conflict with Russia, many of them soldiers who are also suffering psychological trauma from their time at the front.

EVGENIY.