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ABU GHRAIB, Iraq, December 08, 2005 10:41 Doctors at the Abu Ghraib hospital, and a very long-distance phone call, helped diagnose and treat a very sick four-month-old baby. Four-month-old Tabark Abdul Rahman, known as Tabitha to the Abu Ghraib medical staff, was given a grim prognosis on life. When she arrived at the Abu Ghraib hospital she was malnourished, dehydrated, in renal (kidney) distress, was suffering from diarrhea and had a bad cough. X-rays showed she had pneumonia. After two months in and out of Baghdad Children's Hospital, Iraqi doctors sent her home to die. Tabitha's father, Abdul Rahman, couldn't accept that his 4-month-old daughter was going to die, so he approached coalition forces for help. Rahman, a translator with the 306th Military Police Battalion, and a soldier approached Maj. (Dr.) Brad Wenstrup, chief of surgery, asked if he could look at his ill daughter. He presented lab work and a hand-written summary of the child's condition from a doctor at Baghdad Children's Hospital. Wenstrup told Abdul that the military hospital, designed to provide medical care to detainees and the soldiers in the area, ordinarily did not treat civilians unless they have been injured by coalition forces, but he would see what he could do. Task Force 344 does not have a pediatrician on staff. They mostly deal with trauma patients and day-to-day clinical services, so they made some calls. Wenstrup called together several doctors in the hospital, including Dr. Robert Natoaloni, family medicine, whose wife is a pediatrician in Long Island, N.Y. Natoaloni called his wife on the telephone and held the child up so that she could hear the cough over the phone. Based on tests and the phone consultation, a tentative diagnosis of the child was made. Tabitha was treated for pneumonia. When she was released, she was already gaining back weight and was alert and active. By U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Carolanne Diggs Hat Tip: BlackAnthem.com |
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War and combat of any kind are bound to change nations and societies. But the Pearl Harbor attack remains notable in the annals of history because it changed the entire world as a result of America’s involvement in World War II (WWII). Not only did thousands of people lose their lives in the attack on Hawai’i, millions more across the Pacific and the globe died, were wounded, or were displaced in the aftermath of WWII. There are innumerable American families who can recount the impact of WWII and Pearl Harbor on their family history. “I can’t remember just what I saw first—the bomb as it hit the Arizona, the hangar on Ford Island that was lifted up so high that I could see daylight under it, or the USS Utah that was about 30Þ as it was rolling over… I was in the line of fire.”– Ansil “Sandy” Saunders, Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Raleigh, Arizona Memorial Museum Association founder “We didn’t know what it was all about. It was just a normal Sunday. Then boom! This crash…and when I looked, my arm was hanging…” The future of mankind depends on learning the lessons of history. With every tragic event, we learn and grow. But learning can only happen if the lessons of history are not forgotten. So we must memorialize. We must record those lessons. We must share them with others.
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UPDATE: John Ham, a contributer to the Locker Room Blog posted images of two frontpage headlines dated Sunday, December 7th, 1941 and Monday December 8th, 1941. Both images can be enlarged in order to read the front page of these newspapers. I particularly enjoyed reading in the St. Louis Globe Democrat, an AP article which recorded the reactions of New Yorkers to the news of Pearl Harbor: "We're into it, boys." "We didn't start it."
My how things have changed.
On 9/11/01, AP, Reuters, and AFP were in possession of articles, video and photographs of Palestinians dancing in the streets upon hearing the news of the attacks on 9/11/01.
John Ham's article has peaked my curiosity to see if I could get a copy of the Dec 7 & 8 front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Evening Bulletin. It would be fascinating to read how both papers presented the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Princess in the Play, not surprising in the least.
Curious as to what I am doing in Spain?
Details to follow...
Medieval Walled City of Avila on the road to the Gedos Mountain Resort.
The Journey Continues...
It's is a good thing I'm off to Spain for two weeks!
Angela Merkel become Germany's First Woman Chancellor
Germany was on the brink of a new and volatile political era last night, after a deal was agreed that will see the conservative leader Angela Merkel become the country's first ever woman chancellor.
Three weeks of wrangling over last month's indecisive election ended yesterday when the chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, announced he was resigning. Mrs Merkel will now become chancellor and lead a "grand coalition" between her Christian Democrat party and its Bavarian ally the Christian Social Union, and Mr Schröder's Social Democrats.
DEAL REACHED ON IRAQI CONSTITUTION
A deal has apparently been reached on a draft Iraqi constitution that has prompted one of the country's main Sunni Arab parties to reverse its stance and support the document.
The deal comes four days ahead of a referendum on the constitution.
Although Shia and Kurdish leaders support the document, Sunni Arab leaders have rejected it and have urged the Sunni community to vote against it or boycott Saturday's vote
An agreement was reached that would allow the next parliament to consider changes to the constitution four months after a December election.
But there was no agreement on how the constitution might be amended.
The announcement by the Iraqi Islamic party was the first break in the ranks of Sunni Arab leaders.
Sunni Arabs, who boycotted last January's elections, are hoping to have a stronger representation in the next parliament.
Sunnis oppose provisions in the constitution for federalism, fearing it could break the country up into warring sectarian and ethnic regions.
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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
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