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A Slammin' New Track From Tom Morello With Gary Clark Jr. & Gramatik: "Can't Stop the Bleeding"

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steve_davis4/21/2019 3:29:30 pm PDT

re: #34 A Mom Anon

All the ER people at the hospital near us wear Croc type shoes for that reason. All rubber and easy to clean. One nurse told me she had never realized how much crap was on her shoes til her husband cleaned her car’s carpet and upholstery and showed her what the steam cleaner picked up. It’s heartbreakingly part of the job.

Dad’s damage from Vietnam came I’m sure mostly from having to wander around hospitals and MASH tents, praying for and giving last rites to young men destroyed by war. There were things about the war that he simply would not talk about. The time he had to bribe a Vietnamese government official with two cases of beer in order to let a young GI marry a native gal? He could talk about that. But friendly artillery fire aftermath, hospital rounds, nope. He made it 5 minutes into Saving Private Ryan before he had to turn that off. I imagine emergency room folks get pretty damaged over time as well.