Word: woundedness
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In this war, the mighty but merciful allies target bombs carefully and tend to the enemy's wounded. In that war, the allies blow up women and babies. In this war, Iraq is postponing certain defeat by cheating, killing civilians and using human shields. In that war, a weak nation...
By day's end, the tally is eight or nine enemy dead, two civilians wounded, at least a dozen POWs and cheering Iraqis along the roads. It will take many more missions like these to find and disarm the scattering enemy.
Barbe had been told to expect one walking wounded, but as soon as the DUSTOFFS hit the ground, the waiting company brought out Maita, Talraas and a paratrooper who had been shot in the right kidney. But that wasn't Barbe's only surprise that morning. He knew these guys...
When the DUSTOFFS touched down at the Tallil Army Combat Hospital 20 minutes later, the surgery ward was prepped and ready. The wounded paratrooper was wheeled straight onto the operating table, and the surgeons were in and out in an hour and a half.
The piece is overexplained by a title card from Ono that calls it, among other things, an "atonement" for the sufferings of the 20th century, a syntactical slipknot that implies that she inflicted them. Never mind--she's not the first person to remind you that the sentimentality of the...