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...home from Iraq now, and her posts include bubbly accounts of horsing around with her little brother and sparkling close-ups of her new engagement ring. But even when her transport truck was blown up by a roadside bomb in December, Sergeant Lizzie--who declines to share her full name--wrote about the event with the same bouncy style, flip asides, exclamation points and smiley faces. Describing herself under the destroyed truck, gashes on her face, she writes, "I made the remark that I wouldn't be pretty again LOL." The medic teases her for wearing a matching...
...medical doctor and one of seven candidates aiming to fill the seat set aside for women representing the province in parliament, had to get permission from her husband, as well as from the other male members of her extended family, in order to run. Unable to take public transport alone, she has had to hire a jeep and driver to take her out to the remote villages that make up her constituency, and because her own village is so far away, she has rented a small office in town so that she has a place to stay while campaigning...
...clear that calling for an evacuation earlier would have made a huge difference. As with every hurricane, some people don't leave, for all kinds of reasons, including that they simply can't. In fact the plan itself estimates that 100,000 residents would have no means of transport. At the press conference, Nagin said the Superdome would be a shelter of last resort for people with special needs. But even then, they were expected to come with enough food and drinks to last three or four days, Nagin said. The city's website advised people who needed a ride...
Because of all the chaos that descended on New Orleans, the acts of heroism often took the form of mini-rebellions against the bureaucracy. Richard Zucschlag, head of Acadian Ambulance, the largest ambulance transport company in southern Louisiana, moved his dispatch center to the outskirts of New Orleans, where it became the only communications network in the early hours of the disaster. Then, although Zucschlag's staff is not trained to do triage, he sent 10 ambulance medics to the Superdome while his 40 ambulances and seven helicopters served as the initial rescue force in the city. For 40 hours...
...Wing, and often watched those big B-29s take off. When the Enola Gay I returned, it just about blew our tents down, since it came in so low in celebration of what the crew suspected it had done: end the war. Later we flew our C-46 transport plane to Omura, Japan. As we looked down at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed as if somebody had taken a rake and cleared those cities off the earth. I am now 80 years old, and while those memories may have been suppressed, they were never erased from my mind. I only...