Heroic Efforts for a Hero

Again kind of violating my basic blog rule to talk about one particular casualty but it was the one mentioned in the previous post and it is such an extraordinary set of events for a hero and has played so on everyone's emotions here.  Its hard to put in this blog since it would not be right to put down the details, but as stated just such an amazing effort to save this one hero, from the Medivac in the field to the FOB he first went to, to the unbelievable efforts here at Bastion by everyone, to the Special Critical Care Team that flew in from Germany to get him back home. I know for us here at Bastion it was so much more than just giving the best medical care possible. It was an outpouring of love and caring and prayers: a total commitment. At the end of our tour this really crystallized why we are here, and of our young heroes that get injured, but also of the medical heroes here at Bastion and all over Afghanistan that give their all to provide the best care that these injured deserve. In the midst of all the devastation to see the outpouring of good and caring reaffirms the height of the human spirit.