Incredible Heroism
If this doesn't make you proud to be an American, nothing will:
Buhain describes the aftermath of a typical fire fight: "They'd bring in the severely wounded, both coalition troops and insurgents, and we'd evaluate each one. We'd look at the wound, not the uniform, and set priorities. Generally, head injuries went straight to get CT scans, loss-of-limbs went straight to the operating room. Our guys and the insurgents all got the same drugs, MRIs, X-rays, the same time scheduled for surgery."
Occasionally, says Buhain, for reasons of medical necessity, a wounded insurgent might occupy a bed next to the U.S. soldier he had tried to kill.
Buhain, 35, found it emotionally taxing to treat terrorists who had detonated explosives under coalition Humvees or killed innocent children.
"It broke my heart when I saw an American soldier come in badly wounded," he says. "At first, I asked, 'Why do we have to do this, treat people who try to kill us this way?' But the chaplain and the combat stress team helped. I came to see that, at a certain level, the insurgents were like us. They are human beings. We medical personnel had to learn to control our emotions, in order to give them the best care we could."
Read the whole article. That has to be a true test of character for an American soldier, to help a terrorist who would just as soon see the person helping him dead. These are the type of people the Democrats are denigrating and undermining every single day. Don't try to tell me that people like John Murtha are patriots. They most certainly are not. But I digress, the emphasis here should be on our amazing military and the heroes therein. God bless them, every one.
Buhain describes the aftermath of a typical fire fight: "They'd bring in the severely wounded, both coalition troops and insurgents, and we'd evaluate each one. We'd look at the wound, not the uniform, and set priorities. Generally, head injuries went straight to get CT scans, loss-of-limbs went straight to the operating room. Our guys and the insurgents all got the same drugs, MRIs, X-rays, the same time scheduled for surgery."
Occasionally, says Buhain, for reasons of medical necessity, a wounded insurgent might occupy a bed next to the U.S. soldier he had tried to kill.
Buhain, 35, found it emotionally taxing to treat terrorists who had detonated explosives under coalition Humvees or killed innocent children.
"It broke my heart when I saw an American soldier come in badly wounded," he says. "At first, I asked, 'Why do we have to do this, treat people who try to kill us this way?' But the chaplain and the combat stress team helped. I came to see that, at a certain level, the insurgents were like us. They are human beings. We medical personnel had to learn to control our emotions, in order to give them the best care we could."
Read the whole article. That has to be a true test of character for an American soldier, to help a terrorist who would just as soon see the person helping him dead. These are the type of people the Democrats are denigrating and undermining every single day. Don't try to tell me that people like John Murtha are patriots. They most certainly are not. But I digress, the emphasis here should be on our amazing military and the heroes therein. God bless them, every one.
posted by Jennifer at 2:25 AM
<<< Home