[Dean's World] Rosemary Esmay: Courage In A Fallujah Police Station

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Posted by Rosemary Esmay:
Courage In A Fallujah Police Station
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1168343218.shtml


   Quoted:

     Within five minutes of arriving at the Fallujah-Iraqi Police
     Station headquarters, I was welcomed by the sound of shouts and
     hurried footsteps. An Iraqi policeman had been shot at the
     northwest perimeter of the station â a sniper had found his mark.

     A crowd of Iraqis carried the groaning victim up the stationâs main
     staircase and placed him on a litter hurriedly set down on the
     floor of the second-story hallway. A crowd of Iraqi Police and
     Marines coalesced, only to be shooed away by two Navy corpsmen
     rapidly assessing the gaping exit wound in the manâs stomach.

     âIs he going to live?â I asked a Marine standing by on the fringes
     of the press.

   And:

     Two hours after the belly wound was evacuated for surgery, one of
     Watsonâs former trauma patients came in to have a bandage changed
     on a feeding tube in his stomach. A month ago, the man was shot
     clean through both cheeks while guarding a post office. Through an
     interpreter (terp), I asked who shot him and why.

     âHe said ⦠he is saying bad words. He cursed them in Arabic. He
     says they are bad people who donât want Fallujah to be at peace,â
     said the âterp.â

     I asked him if he was going to return to work after his recovery.

     âOf course,â he said. âI am Iraqi police forever.â

   More reporting by Bill Ardolino in [1]The Washington Examiner.

   I find the moral vacuity of people who want us to pull out of that
   country and abandon those brave people simply nauseating.

References

   1. http://www.examiner.com/a-491658~Bill_Ardolino__Grit_and_guts_for_Navy_corpsmen_in_a_Fallujah_police_station.html