I pray the operation works
No jokes, no puns ... give the warrior back his masculinity
Known in ‘Nam as “The Wound!”
(shutter....)
Last year I came across a story about men who’d lost their testicles and how terrible the VA was with dealing with this problem.
We’re talking about endocrinology. We’re talking about hormones that affect the entire body and the brain.
Yet, there seems to be no ‘expert’ who can take on this problem.
My son lost one testicle to a biking accident when he was only 9 years old. Thankfully, one will do the job. But now he’s *very* careful to protect the ‘last man standing’.
Feminists go on and on about the horrors of FGM, but nobody seems to take it seriously when a man is mutilated.
Yes. Give these men their manhood back. Restore their hormone function. (Testicle transplants were tried - successfully - decades ago) Return them, as best as we can, to their natural state.
It is the humane thing to do.
I have a couple of the newer “individual first aid kits” for troops, and it is sobering. We’ve evolved from the battle dressing in a pouch to a small plastic box with a few more supplies in a pouch to a large pouch with a tourniquet, a “naso-pharyngel airway” (a rubbery straw-like device which appears to let one administer CPR to someone without a mouth or face by blowing through what is left of their nostril opening), “Quik-Clot” to stop bleeding, a dressing with industrial-type tape to affix it...
God help those in need of these kits.
This thread brought to mind the Band of Brothers movie.
In one scene Easy Co. was taking a town from the Germans when artillery pounded them.
One guy stumbled out of a building with horrible wounds. Half of one foot was blown off, bloody wounds to his legs, stomach chest and head.
As his friends begin to dress his wounds the 1st Sgt notices his groin is very bloody.
He rips the man’s fly open to take a look: you are going to be fine buddy, everything is exactly where it is supposed to be.
I know my stomach did a little turn watching that scene the first time.