The One I'll Always Remember: Caring for America's Wounded Warriors

by Gary L. Bloomfield

Overview

The One I'll Always Remember puts the reader on the front lines and in the operating rooms to experience the dramatic impact on the military care providers who have told their stories. The reader will feel the emotional and psychological trauma of extended combat surgeries, and learn the coping skills, such as avoiding knowing a patient's name or too much personal information, including whether he’s married or has children. These medical personnel save more than 95 percent of all the wounded warriors who come to the field hospitals, yet it's those few who don't make it which haunt them for years—and sometimes forever. The guilt of not being able to save everyone, and of asking if they could have done more. Not knowing their names, but still seeing their faces in haunting memories, even decades later.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493038619
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	1,047,521
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Gary Bloomfield was Army Journalist of the Year in 1976, Managing Editor for VFW magazine, and Senior Editor for Faces of Victory Europe and Faces of Victory Pacific. He is the author of Maxims of General Patton; I Will Be an American Someday Soon; and Duty, Honor, Victory: America's Athletes in WWII; and co-author of Duty, Honor, Applause: America's Entertainers in WWII. He lives in south Kansas City, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Foreword Larry Mahana, RN v

Introduction Gary L. Bloomfield ix

Iraq

Getting Stung in the Hornet's Nest "Dr. Chuck" 3

Princess in Pink Scott Brocious 8

Learning to Run Connie Bengston 12

A Father Shows His Appreciation Virginia Vardon-Smith 19

God Bless the Little Children Virginia Vardon-Smith 27

A True Test of Friendship Laura Gregory 33

"My Head Hurts a Little" Trish Hayden 49

A Proud Father Anthony Pansoy 57

Compassion for an Enemy Combatant Cheryl L. Brown 62

Two Hellish Days in Fallujah, by "Old Doc Donkey" 69

Three Special Guys of the Many Patients at Landstuhl Lt. Col. Gail Fancher 75

"I have the best job in the World" Trish Hayden 81

Afghanistan

An Exasperating Wait Jerome Wenninger 90

Petty Thievery in Shangri-La "Dr. Strike" 100

Run to Forget Robert Strange 103

The Killing Season Christopher Ray Washburn 113

"Two Someones?" Susan Fondy 121

Marine in the Helmand Chris Dewing 128

"Have You Ever Seen It This High?" Dr. Yang Wang 137

Reunion at the Airport Nick Cressy 148

Cliffhanger Mack Easty 151

Heartbreak in My "Dream" Job Col Elizabeth Cowles Harrell 158

War Bonds! Michelle Imlay 165

"Cat Alpha-GSW to the Head" Dr. Yang Wang 173

Concurrent Missions

A Quiet Conversation Debra D. Berthold 183

Collision James Akin 188

Richard Stanley E. Chartoff 197

Mission to Kosovo and Back Robert G. Holcomb 208

Ditched at Sea Carl Hill 217

Jambo Jason Unruh 223

"That's Not Paul!" Capt. Jackie Richards 231

Home Front

Drop Zone Coverage George A. Barbee 237

Everyone Is a Hero Jackie Mansueto 243

The Silly String Ambush Connie Bengston 246

Murderous Thoughts Necia Williams 250

She Walked Away When He Needed Her the Most Shanell Almaguer 252

Positive Attitude Dr. Twisted 261

Tears in the Delivery Room Necia Williams 263

Final Thoughts 265