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Wednesday, 07 February 2007

“What’s the Best Case Scenario?” … “He Lives.” 
Jules Crittenden

Badgers Forward, engineer company CO in Iraq, delivers the blow-by-blow on what happens when they bring in someone who might not make it:

The next several hours are like any you have experienced at a hospital when a loved one is in surgery. It’s a big family, dirty and uniformed, but a family nonetheless. The “older” family members, whether by rank or age, move from group to group. The Soldiers have questions, but we have few satisfactory answers. At this point we know little, but the fact that surgery is still going on is a good sign. He’s fighting and the doctors and nurses are doing all they can.

Men fight back tears, they seek solace in each other’s company. As medical personnel come and go, we ask questions and receive the typical noncommittal answers. One can hardly fault them for that; no one wants false hope, only to have that dashed later. We are all adults here and we know what the stakes are.

Finally, the surgery is complete. ...

Read the whole thing, follow the link.

Posted by Bill Faith on February 7, 2007 at 04:38 PM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, The American Warrior | Permalink

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