The injuries from birdshot are visible on his face as Harry Whittington, the man accidentally shot and wounded by a shotgun blast from the gun of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney while quail hunting in Texas, speaks to the media outside of Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas February 17, 2006. Whittington is expected to be released from the hospital later in the day. REUTERS/Todd Yates