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This is War

20 | Buzard

This is War

Incongruity

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, History, Social Sciences, Science

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Daniel “Doc” Buzard had been a working paramedic long before he deployed in his late 20s, but his first taste of combat medicine opened his eyes to the possibilities and meaning that providing aid has in a war zone.

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All I'm doing is running from body to body, doing what I can.

0:19.7

I do have the sense to roll the obviously dead over on their belly so that I know not

0:26.2

to go back to them.

0:28.2

veterans often talk about missing the war and bewildered terms.

0:32.4

In terms they know civilians can't really grasp.

0:35.8

In terms they barely grasp themselves.

0:38.2

It's about more than just the adrenaline rush or the danger.

0:43.0

Though that is a significant part of it, it's a rare opportunity to be useful, to literally

0:48.9

save lives, to be bound to people who otherwise would be strangers by the very responsibility

0:54.6

of keeping one another safe.

0:56.9

Daniel Doc Buzard had been a working paramedic long before he deployed in his late 20s.

1:02.3

But his first taste of combat medicine opened his eyes to the possibilities and meaning

1:07.2

that providing aid has in a war zone.

1:10.4

Meanwhile, you know I look up in the tree where the kids are selling ice cream, there's

1:13.7

intestines hanging from the trees.

1:24.7

What is true bravery?

1:26.7

What makes a hero a hero?

1:29.8

Tested by the worries of what's happening at home thousands of miles away and the reality

1:34.9

of what you're facing here and now.

1:38.5

When your life is in danger every second and it's either killed or be killed.

1:44.3

From Wondery and in-congruity media, this is Anthony Russo and this is war.

1:56.0

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