A Typical Day on Patrol
Heroes Remember
A Typical Day on Patrol
There would be largely,
I'd say three or four vehicles -
four people per vehicle and
we would travel through the villages and
through the mountains and into the towns
stopping at differen tocations and
asking how people are and seeing what
sort of requirements are being met or
not being met. And that would carry out
through easily eight hours or more of work
depending on the type of route that we
were taking and how much work was required.
It was a bit of a shock in a sense to see...
it seemed as if there were either
brand new buildings or completely
obliterated ones and that was still complete...
it was through the whole landscape.
I mean it seemed to be one way or the other
and there was still it seemed some families
that were living in the decrepit buildings
as much as in the new ones which was
truly unfortunate but the signs of war
were absolutely everywhere.
There was no escaping that.
And it seemed that they were doing
everything in their power to come back to
a sense of normalcy for sure.
The people once again were completely
supportive. We did have people that were
more than willing to come up to us
with their grievances or issues that
they might have had.
There wasn't any animosity there either, in fact,
in a lot of cases it seemed
they were more comfortable coming to us
with their issues than other people in
the community or whatever where we
would be able to facilitate some
sort of understanding between groups
that may or may not have still been able to
come to terms with each other.
But that was our typical day doing as
much interaction as possible making sure
that everybody was feeling comfortable
with everything that had happened and
for the future.
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