Sgt. Brandon Adam: "I’ve pieced this together from what people have told me. I remember about 30 seconds after I got hit. I slumped over, fell and was all disoriented. It was dark. I couldn’t see. There was smoke everywhere. I was more worried about my buddy who was sitting where the hole was. I thought he had died. I tried to get up and couldn’t . . . suddenly it felt like a million hot needles in my legs. I yelled out twice that I thought my legs were on fire. They found me, dragged me out and immediately my best buddy John put a tourniquet on my left leg. The right leg was too mangled for a tourniquet. They have these things like a patch that coagulate the blood. They couldn’t really control the bleeding on my right side"/Marianne Love/Slight Detour, River Journal.
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
people have told me. I remember about 30 seconds after I got hit. I slumped over, fell and was all disoriented. It was dark. I couldn’t see. There was smoke everywhere. I was more worried about my buddy who was sitting where the hole was. I thought he had died. I tried to get up and couldn’t . . . suddenly it felt like a million hot needles in my legs. I yelled out twice that I thought my legs were on fire. They found me, dragged me out and immediately my best buddy John put a tourniquet on my left leg. The right leg was too mangled for a tourniquet. They have these things like a patch that coagulate the blood. They couldn’t really control the bleeding on my right side"/Marianne Love/Slight Detour, River Journal.
