Medic...Help

Medic...Help

(Mike Wheatley)

Tent, moving, team boxes, no rest

BANG, shrapnel, smoke, dust

Crawling, screaming, blood...gushing

Wilkerson, Breckenridge, Matiapule, myself

MEDIC!

HELP...

Wilkerson? Shrapnel, neck, feet

Carotid, blood...gushing

Bandage, pressure, holding

Stretcher, lift, blood, coagulating

MEDIC! 

HELP...

Humvee, loaded, driving, Rivera

Feet, bouncing, Wilkerson, screaming,

Morphine, Wilkerson? Eyes rolling

Medic, bandage, blood...gushing

MEDIC!

HELP...

C.A.S.H., unload, last words, LIED

Trauma, tracheotomy, transfusion, confusion

Wilkerson?...Wilkerson??

Unresponsive...

WILKERSON?

MEDIC!

HELP...

First Sergeant, Commander, Platoon Sergeant, Platoon Leader

Blank faces, silence, sorrow, CASUALTY?

Wilkerson died...