The Smallest Bird

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24. The Chief was absolutely correct

I served as lead surgeon of a forward surgical facility in support of USMC in Helmand Province during one of the most kinetic time periods of the Afghanistan war. I was privileged to interact with many local Afghans and took care of many of their injured, especially children. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of those kids I helped care for. I can still see their faces and I'm intimately aware of just how impoverished, for lack of a better term, their situation was at that time. I usually describe their living conditions as "biblical" because that's a term most Westerners can wrap their heads around. That was 2011 and most of those kids are now young adults. How much different that country would be if we had taken your friends advice. Also, if only Ahmad Massoud has not been assassinated in the days prior to 9/11