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August 07, 2006
Don't Blow, GO !
You can't wash the blood off your hands
Hart Viges Article
"My name is Hart Viges. September 11 happened. Next day I was in the recruiting office. I thought that was the way I could make a difference in the world for the better.
So I went to infantry school and jump school and I arrived with my unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. I was deployed to Kuwait in February 2003. We drove into Iraq because Third Infantry Division was ahead of schedule, and so I didn't need to jump into Baghdad airport."
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"I knew no one and the guy I was helping was screaming, as were many others. When I finally got out of there, I had a lot of that guy's blood all over me and there was no place to wash up. I remember washing my hands with canteen water and then rubbing them in the dirt, but I couldn't get all the blood off.
By the time I got to Da Nang all the blood had dried hours before and my hands itched. I finally got to take a shower and washed and washed. Back then there wasn't today's fear of blood as there was no such thing as HIV, but someone else's blood still felt weird. Somehow that guy's blood has stayed with me all of these years.
Sometimes, I find myself scratching at my hands and I am almost afraid to look at them as I can still feel that warm blood as it seeped through the compress I was holding. If you want to stop the bleeding, you need to put some real pressure on a wound, and if you let up for even a second, that blood starts flowing again and it leaves a lasting impression on your mind.
So the other day I was thinking about that blood again and then I thought about how many Americans in Iraq will be stuck with that blood that you can't wash away."
| By jjtechno | 12:41 PM
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