Dear Little JO,
All right. Here’s a quick note back to you. It’s not a secret or anything. Mark’s hip bone got shattered on a rock when he was thrown from the back of a truck. He’d been over there a little more than eighteen months. Apparently he was standing in the truck bed with everyone else, and they came around a corner and there was a goat in the road. So of course the driver slammed on the brakes and swerved.
Mark was the only one who fell out. His rifle slid down an embankment and he lost it. He also broke his wrist. The bad luck was that the hospital in Fallujah was so under-resourced that he had to wait ages for surgery. Way too long. Then an insurgent attack on the base filled up the whole hospital, so in the end he got sent to Germany for the surgery. All that waiting apparently made the damage worse.
Sincerely,
AK