Update on my brother.
This is a email from Iraq he sent yesterday. I have to say support your local troops!
"Steve
Thanks for writing and sending the care package. I heard from Mike about Uncle Norm, its very sad, but at some point we all die, cancer is just a horrible way to do it. Death is all around me here. We got mortared with 17 rounds about 3 days ago, and a father walked in holding his baby and his 7 year old daughter, both dead. We worked on a US Soldier who's HMMV hit and IED, he had just a small injury to his leg but was coding... we spent 2 hours coding him, he'd come back then fade away, we transfused a large amounts of blood, eventually we took him to the OR, but we lost him due to massive blood loss internally. The next day the health care providers here lined the path from our morg to the landing zone where the Blackhawk took him away to fly home on the angel flight its very sad, I kept thinking about his family and how sad they will be to here of his loss, especially if he had little kids. On the other hand we save numerous lives, we had a little 9 year old Iraqi girls burned over 35% of her body, treated poorly at a local Iraqi hospital for a week, she came to us almost dead covered in pseudomonas... we spent 2 weeks on her, she flew out to go to Boston to be treated in the Shriner's hospital all costs paid. Well I'm sorry I probably shouldn't have written all this, but that's how things are here, I'm very happy I'm here, because I'm making a difference, and that's what makes it all worth it. "