> > My dad said they had one of the more dangerous
> > jobs, crawling into the battlefield and getting
> > wounded soldiers.
>
> And your dad knows this because he almost went into the Vietnam War.
>
> One time I was going to cross the street and this giant Mack truck drove by. If I had stepped off the curb a second or two later I would have been hit by the truck and been killed. I was therefore almost killed. Which is really a good thing, since now I know everything there is to know about death (and its nobility) and can tell my children about it twenty-five years from now.
>
> -Eric Sleator
> Fri 5 Jul A.D. 2002

Note: just because you hear it from a parent, doesn't mean it's wrong. His dad is right, and you can verify that practically every half hour on the Hitler, er History Channel, or talk to a WWII veteran, for instance.

Not to say that every medic was a conscientious objector, but during WWII, at least, that is how drafted pacifists were called to serve. The only thing worse than going into combat is going into combat unarmed, which is what medics did. I don't know if that is still the case.

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