I’m sure you know far more than I do about it. My interest is simply as a mother. As one mother talking to another, she told me he would be safe, they promised him either a ship or a hospital. They lied. Maybe six months later, a young man’s life was so very close to lost. His wife pregnant with the first child. They lied. That’s what recruiters do. They diverted his whole class into it, to the front lines. That’s what they needed, then. I’m with Natalie Merchant when she sings in Gun Shy “They're so good at making soldiers but they're not so good at making men.“ The tragedies are so endless.
“Due to the need for Hospital Corpsmen in a vast array of foreign, domestic, and shipboard duty stations, the Hospital Corps is the largest rating in the United States Navy.
It is also the most decorated with 22 Medals of Honor, 174 Navy Crosses, 31 Distinguished Service Medals, 946 Silver Stars and 1,582 Bronze Stars. Twenty naval ships have been named after hospital corpsmen.“
This was in the Bush years, when soldiers were getting chewed up and spit out.
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