Word from a Combat Medic..

[inaki]

Folks interested in overseas goingons may want to read this. A combat medic and fur local to the Bay Area named zassa is stationed in Baghdad, and writes an interesting piece on what happens, when his medical skills are put towards a Terrorist.

Knowing that there are people like this over there give me a big boost of hope of some small good happening over there, and remind me that my anti-war stance is a beef with the administration, NOT the troops themselves.

Comments

Re: Understandable

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, that's a good explanation, and I really appreciate your response! I've kinda appointed myself linguistic cop for the current era because, as they say, the first casualty of war is the truth. But it goes both ways -- categories, like "military" and "civilian" sound really good on paper, but they tend to fall apart in the utter chaos of field operations, I'm sure. Especially if it was anywhere near an urban area, especially, yeah, I can see how the distinction wouldn't be real clear -- and though I haven't been keeping on tactics stuff like I probably should, it sounds like the insurgency isn't paying a lot of attention to the niceties of rules of engagement.

Just checking. :) Take care of yourself and get home safe, OK?