Donald Sensing on combat medics:
I recall reading Stephen Ambrose's observation that in World War II, the military specialty with the highest percentage of its soldiers decorated for heroism in action were medics. Infantrymen have spoken of being under fire, lying as flat as they can on the ground and trying to get into the ground, when the call goes out, "Medic!" (or in the Marines, "Corpsman!"). Then, with fire whizzing all around and the grunts cursing buttons on their shirts for being so thick, they see the medic stand up, run through the incoming fire and kneel beside the stricken one to treat him, apparently oblivious to the instant death tearing through the air only inches away.
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