Posted on 02/05/2009 3:49:29 PM PST by SandRat
FOB HUNTER — U.S. Army medical experts recently visited a small clinic in southeastern Iraq to provide medical assistance to the citizens there.
Local Iraqis lined up in single file near the clinic’s perimeter fence eagerly awaiting basic examinations and medical advice from combat medics and a physician.
“Army medical personnel help is very good for us,” said Amle Jaffer, one of the Iraqi nurses at the clinic. “We generally have only Aspirin, water and basic medicines. Small clinics need lots of things that we don’t always have.”
The medical personnel taught the clinic’s nurses how to maximize the use of their medicines and treatments more than they were able to provide previously. Despite the village’s limited medical inventory, the Iraqi nurses learned when to use certain medicines and the best way to apply them.
“These people don’t have a lot,” said Capt. Julie Cyr, a medical planner who assisted during the mission. “It was a heartfelt deed because they need our help.”
The medical advice varied from explaining to parents why their children won’t sleep well at night to dealing with their ear and throat bacterial infections. Members of the squadron also provided shoes and clothing to as many Iraqi children as possible during the event.
Saddam let many people die so he could build 52 palaces with the oil for food money.
What is the big deal? The act of mercy is nothing more or less than the actions of the HATED AMERICAN MILITARY from the time the 1st American fought on foreign soil. Across Europe in two World Wars, across the span of countless islands in the Pacific, up the entire Korean land mass, even on the home islands of Japan, and the tragic land of Vietnam, the American military YOUTH has shown a sense of compassion and kindness virtually unkown in history.
Medical clinics, orphanages, schools, clothing donations, books, these are what is left behind by the soldiers, marines and sailor of the United States.
History shows that when the combat ends with CERTAIN people the victors, the REAL killing starts. History also shows that when it is the AMERICAN who is the victor, the killing STOPS, and yesterday’s enemy becomes the poor hungry little kid or mother or father who need help and needs it NOW. History shows that the desperate receive that help.
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