Purple Hearts Tristan Wyatt, 21, PFC, 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment, lost his leg in a firefight in Fallujah on August 25, 2003. Two other soldiers in the APC also lost their legs. Wyatt has undergone ten surgeries because of massive infections as a result of his wounds. Photographed at Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington D.C., October 29, 2003.