What Do You Think?
Nov 10 '03 (Updated Nov 20 '03)
The Bottom Line Unacceptable & dis-hearting to think this could happen in todays US Army.
What Do You Think?
I’m sick at heart today. I’m angry. I’m helpless. I’ve cried. I don’t know what to do except write.
My son, AJ, whom I know many of you are familiar with, has had to do something I can’t imagine. I’m furious that a person would make another do this and my heart is breaking for my son.
Another soldier, a friend of his was killed not long ago in Iraq. He e-mailed me about it. I know this boy’s name but will not write it here in respect to his family and friends. Just please say a prayer for him.
This soldier was killed by a roadside bomb while he was riding in a humvee. This truck was badly damaged but because they are short on these trucks they (powers that be for AJ’s unit) decided to get it fixed.
Now, who gets to clean out the human remains from this truck?
AJ was told to clean his friend’s flesh and blood up from this truck. It was everywhere, like a hose has been turned on and sprayed inside of it.
There was no way to get it all off and out; it was up under the panels, in the corners, in every crease or dent available. AJ and the unlucky few who were chosen for this task tried their best.
I would think they would have someone trained to remove human remains do this. I think a graves specialist is what the army calls them. Why were they not used? Did the person who made the decision to keep this truck actually look at it and in it? Was this person willing to clean it themselves?
Sometime, somewhere I remember reading that a good commander never has his troops do what he is not willing to do himself. Would AJ’s commander have helped clean this?
I can say AJ was not in his immediate unit but they were friends, they hung out together. AJ said he saw him every single Monday during work hours.
Today is Monday and AJ is missing his friend and unable to get the horror of cleaning his friend out of this truck.
They weren’t thinking about the human life lost in this truck and out of respect that the truck should not be used anymore. I understand needing to have a certain number of vehicles, but is this acceptable?
Now, to add insult to the horrid task my son was sent to do; he also was made to drive this battered truck with no floorboard, missing many pieces to another city to have it fixed.
What chance would he have had if he had hit a bomb? None at all. He would have had no protection. .
It was raining and every time he hit a puddle, blood would spray everywhere because there was there was no way to get under the panels to clean. The truck also smelled. It had sat for 3 days or so since the bombing.
He cleaned what he could of his friends decaying remains out of that truck. Than drove that truck to another city several hours away to be fixed. Not only is this vehicle unsafe to drive but it’s unsafe to be in…think of all the diseases and germs from the blood and human flesh remaining being splattered up on my son as he drove this humvee with no floor board in the rain.
This is unacceptable; today’s US Army, knows better than this and is trained better than this.
Now, what do you think?
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