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To: andysandmikesmom
I am on the side of life with you. Myself and two of my AF friends avoided getting blown up by a bomb at the Rib House in Alcala, Spain by 10 minutes in the late '80s. We drove down the M2 to Madrid when we heard it and got to a turnoff to get us back there. In civilian clothes, we tied off limbs, comforted those dying, tried to stop bleeding where possible. I saved 2 little kids and moved to the next victim. 15 dead, 28 disabled. Covered in blood, we directed the ambulances to the people most likely to live. Some people lived for a short time and wanted someone to say goodbye to. We understood each other's language. Those bastards were not ETA. ETA always phones in where a bomb is 15 minutes before it explodes.

Nobody around here can imagine a damaged person grasping for life like all those people that it was impossible for more than a few minutes with large parts of their bodies blown off. This restaurant was built of stone. The OSI interview told us the bomb was placed in a men's restroom near the waiting bar where folks wait for tables.

Which brings me 8000 miles around to find out what Michael Schiavo knows what the AFOSI and the Guardio Nacional can squeeze out of him.

421 posted on 03/18/2005 7:57:09 PM PST by BobS
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To: BobS

God Bless you for helping all of those people...and giving them comfort for whatever length of time your could...

In all my years of working in nursing homes, I have had to watch many of my beloved charges die..in most cases it was expected, these for the most part, were extremely old residents...most of them seemed to sense when their end was near , many of them no longer had any family who came, so it was often up to us, the nursing home caregivers, to comfort them, to read to them, to hold them, when their turn came to die...it was always difficult, yet it was also an honor to be with them, as they died...

However, luckily for me, I have never had to witness a resident being starved or dehydrated to death...I dont think I would be able to handle that...my residents who died, just died from natural causes...a natural progression from old age...


439 posted on 03/18/2005 8:14:15 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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