I'm going to shift gears for a bit and be serious.
It's happened. A nurse has been killed in combat in Iraq. Maria Ines Ortiz, 40, was killed in late July by a mortar attack in the Green Zone in Baghdad. She was buried at Arlington National Cemetary last week.
The Edgewood, Md., resident is the first Army nurse killed in combat since the VietNam War, Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, the Army's acting surgeon general, said in an interview yesterday. "Having one of the family go down is very, very hard," said Pollock, who also is a nurse. "You feel like a piece of your heart is gone."
Ortiz was returning from physical training July 10 when she was caught outside by a barrage of mortar shells. She was killed by shrapnel.
You can read more about it here.
Whether we agree with the war or not, how about we all stop and say a prayer for ALL of those serving overseas as well as stateside? My opinion ... we'd be nowhere without our military.
My condolences to Maria's family, and to all of the families who have lost a treasured member ...
~RWS
2 comments:
I became a nurse later in life...but my mom was an Army nurse during WWII so this touches me in so many different ways...gender identification...colleague...and hero...
wow, so sad! thanks for sharing.
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