Assisting at the Hospital
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Assisting at the Hospital
The eye opener one day was myself and my platoon commander,
went to the hospital which was right across the road from where
we were staying in a bombed out building, and we were living no
different what they were. No different, no lights, nothing so,
you know, no toiletry, nothing.
So we, I felt we were just as bad as what they were. We were
getting nothing and I seen pails of water and I seen,
I went in and seen the hospital and see how people were doing
and if we can help in anyway, give them fresh water.
What I saw there I didn’t like. There was people having
their limbs amputated. No medication whatsoever, nothing.
So I watched one nurse. She had a pail of water and she was
hosing down sheets outside and I said, “Well what is she doing?”
I had the translator, and he said, “Well she’s just washing the
blood of the sheets.” And the sheets was like dye coming off,
it was just water, blood water running down the parking lot
right onto the main street and that’s how they were cleaning
their sheets. They’d ring them out. They’d dry them.
They’d bring them back up for the next operation, or whoever got
killed in the front line. And the Muslim front line wasn’t very
far from the town, you know. So they were getting wounded
soldiers in and it was just, I was saying,
“Holy jumpin, this is not happening.
This is not true. This can’t be true.”
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