Purple Heart, brotherly bonds: Critical care nurse in Afghanistan shares blog about a sniper shooting
May 23, 2013 in Alexandria Echo Press
Editor’s note: The following is the conclusion of a two-part blog entry written by Patty Roth of Alexandria. She’s deployed in Afghanistan as a critical care nurse in charge of the intensive care unit at the Kandahar NATO Role 3 Hospital. The first part told of a Navy Seal team member (identified in the blog as the patient) who came to the hospital with a bullet wound to the head. Continue Reading
This post is about one particularly hard day, meant only to give you a glimpse of what it is like here and how we cope with what we see.
Someday soon five soldiers in Afghanistan, who have likely never been to Lake County, will receive a shoe-size box filled with an assortment of items intended to brighten their day. 
RICHARDTON Returning home from a tour of duty overseas, you would think Spc. Dillon Baer would be most excited to reunite with friends and family that he’s known for years. 
Sgt. Kory Twardowski of Dickinson isn’t the type of guy you’d expect to be described as cute, fuzzy and cuddly. 
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