Reply #29: Medical personnel are heroes

[OzarkDem]

The docs, nurses, corpsmen, etc. were in grave danger, but couldn't focus on defending themselves, only helping the wounded and sick.

One of my favorite books is of the nurses and docs who were stranded on the Bataan Peninsula at the beginning of the war when the Japanese first invaded. They had to move all the sick and wounded from the hospitals out into the jungle - doing surgery, etc. out in the open. It went on for a very long time before they all were eventually taken prisoner.

Great book.


http://www.amazon.com/We-Band-Angels-American-Japanese/dp/0375502459