The World According To Chris Brewer

…to shoot video for AFN Valentine Greetings. Relax, I feel better and really had no reason to go there today other than to shoot video.

I was actually kind of scared to go into that hospital for obvious reasons — I’m in a war zone and they receive injuries ranging from the normal to the unimaginable. Coincidentally, it is the same hospital where they took Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt, the ABC News anchor and photographer who were seriously hurt in an IED attack yesterday near Taji.

Case in point, today I walked past an Iraqi man who had something in his eye (and I’m not talking just a piece of dust, if you get my drift). He was walking toward the emergency room with another Iraqi by his side. It was unlike anything I had ever seen, and a while after I saw it I ran into the restroom and lost my lunch. After that, I gained a new respect for the doctors and nurses who witness such horrible injuries and do their best to save our troops’ lives. God bless them.

I’m sorry to be so graphic, but I caught my first glimpse of reality into what war actually can do to people. Sad to say, what I witnessed was not even close to the worst of it. We really need to uphold our fellow Americans fighting this war in prayer. The people who are getting killed by the coward terrorists’ bombs are no different than you and me. They are people who have families, lead normal daily lives, go to work, come home, interact with friends, go to church, and lead a completely different life than the one that forces them to wear this uniform. And it just so happens that someone who is called to protect people they would not know from Adam, all of a sudden has their life changed by the stupidity, hate and religious extremism of cowardly savages.

I respect and pray for each and every one of my fellow troops. It’s because of reasons such as the afore mentioned, that you all have a moral obligation to do the same as well.

[tags]Iraq, hospital, IED[/tags]