the scene was just awful. you could smell the death you could smell it. and there was kind of a mist floating over the ground as well and the stillness and the quiet after the noise and the bedlam of battle. for the two days after the battle, we were under heavy artillery fire and a further six members of the battalion were killed. this shelljust there was zero warning, so therefore, it was possibly a mortar and boom, straightaway. all i remember was being thrown in the air and landing on my stomach. my wounds were catastrophic. traumatic amputation of my left leg. the leg that remains, it wasjust shredded, you know? there was a compound
and the stillness and the quiet after the noise and the bedlam of battle. for the two days after the battle, we were under heavy artillery fire and a further six members of the battalion were killed. this shelljust there was zero warning, so therefore, it was possibly a mortar and boom, straightaway. all i remember was being thrown in the air and landing on my stomach. my wounds were catastrophic. traumatic amputation of my left leg. the leg that remains, it wasjust shredded, you know? there was a compound fracture of my femur. it was touch and go whether i could keep that leg, if they could save it.
and there was kind of a mist floating over the ground as well and the stillness and the quiet after the noise and the bedlam of battle. for the two days after the battle, we were under heavy artillery fire and a further six members of the battalion were killed. this shelljust there was zero warning, so therefore, it was possibly a mortar and boom, straightaway. all i remember was being thrown in the air and landing on my stomach. my wounds were catastrophic. traumatic amputation of my left leg. the leg that remains, it wasjust shredded, you know? there was a compound fracture of my femur. it was touch and go whether i could keep that leg, if they could save it.
pistol he gets suspended. john: when you were in school, you won a creative writing award. for writing a story in which east german refugees tried to escape it west germany one got his legs blown off in a minefield and died, then, i visited a school, very recently where 10 grade english was to write a story about what you want, a boy wrote a story about a winter 1942, from perspective of a russian sold o sold or patrol, and he described who happened. and how the head is explodes. and this boy was suspended from school. boys doing things that boys have always done. throwing snowballs. drawing pictures of a weapon, writing stories about traumatic amputation and death, they do what they have always done that gets you in trouble.
know. we take care of accidents all the time and it s just depressing when it s intentional. have you ever seen anything like this? you know, the injuries are not worldly, but, no, i can t say i have seen this volume of patients come with this quickly with this type of injuries. it appears that these devices may have been ied-like or crude in nature but you say the injury is not otherworldly. what do you mean? well, a traumatic amputation, it s a gruesome injury, but it s something that we do see from time to time in the scoring of daily life, even outside of this type of event. but it s tough on you, i know you are trained for it, but did you think much about really what was happening or does it kick in automatically? this is work. when it happens we just go to work. you talked about injuries on a broad scale but you have 8 in