Things are definitely complicated here. Soliders are all asked to do a variety of operations other than war. It is confusing and overwhelming all the same. The Afghan people are simply so poor and so conservative that conditions are not ripe to make any long term changes (at least this appears to be so on the surface).
A round landed less than 10m away from the soldiers' huts last week - it actually hit the chapel - and tore right through the plywood roof.
This week this baby girl (14 months) who came in with severe burns on her left arm - she burned her skin off from the elbow down. Her father informed us that her brother pushed her into some hot tea. The culture here is known to discipline their children by dipping them into boiling water. Fortunately the field surgeon who in real life in U.S. is a neurologist believes she'll fully recover. Most of the other casualties we're seeing are followups to the treatment we've been providing them from their initial injury.
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