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A million-dollar wound or Blighty wound is military slang referring to a type of wound received in combat which is serious enough to get the person sent away from the fighting, but is not fatal, nor will it leave the person permanently crippled. In his World War II memor ''With the Old Breed'', Eugene Sledge wrote that during the Battle of Okinawa, the day after he tried to reassure a fellow United States Marine who believed he would soon die, In the 1994 film ''Forrest Gump'' Tom Hanks's character receives a million-dollar wound in the buttocks and is sent home from the Vietnam War. In a novel titled ''The Million Dollar Wound'', which involves both combat at Guadalcanal and organized crime intrusion into the film industry, Max Allan Collins also explains that it was originally called the "Hollywood wound." A similar concept is the Blighty wound, a British reference from World War I.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blighty Wounds )〕 Joseph Heller uses the expression in his 1961 novel ''Catch 22'' when his hero, Yossarian, suffers a leg wound and calls it a million-dollar wound. Science fiction author Dean Whitlock wrote a 1987 short story titled "The Million-Dollar Wound" about a future war in which, as the conflict progresses, increasingly severe wounds are surgically and prosthetically repaired, until eventually, the only way for a soldier to be sent home is to die. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Million-dollar wound」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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