2008 Woodie Awards
Today continues our profile of U.S. soldiers and marines killed in action in the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns who grew up in Hawai‘i. Yesterday, Hawai‘i residents who died in 2003 to 2004 were covered.
Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, Straight and swift to my wounded I go, Where they lie on the ground after the battle brought in, Where their priceless blood reddens the grass the ground, Or to the rows of the hospital tent, or under the roof'd hospital, To the long rows of cots up and down each side I return, To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss, An attendant follows holding a tray, he carries a refuse pail, Soon to be fill'd with clotted rags and blood, emptied, and fill'd again.
