Articles about the Medics

I wanted to share some links to articles that talk about Ben's unit. This first one, in our local newspaper, is about his medics. At the end of the article, they talk about a man being treated for gunshot wounds to the back of the head. Ben told me about this on the phone last night...what the article doesn't say is that he was shot by the police. Since the prison was destroyed, the police are shooting prisoners, execution style, on sight. Talk about corrupt.

FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER ARTICLE

There are a lot of good news clip videos with our guys on this site :

VIDEO CLIPS

Things seem like they are moving along in Haiti . There is less chaos now. Here is another excerpt from an email from Ben :

You talked about pain the Haitians are in... I don't know what percentage are in pain, but as you walk through the tent cities, or drive through the towns you see markets up and running, countless numbers of people on their cell phones and people in the street trying to sell whatever they can. Talking with the locals this isn't how it was before the earthquake, not because people weren't selling, but they have been displaced from where they used to sell their goods. How much of a difference that makes in their lives who can say. You look at these people and you see how quickly they're adapting and you can tell that this nation has been through tough times time and time again. They appear to be used to this and are just evolving to this new way of life. I wouldn't say they are moving on as a nation but absolutely they are moving somewhere.

Many are still hurting and children are missing mothers and fathers. Parents are missing kids. Some homes are totally destroyed while others were spared. I can't make sense of it and I don't know if God wants us to. I don't know how it worked out but over 80 orphans were just adopted from families in the states. I had the opportunity to see them come in on the bus and get in the c-17 for Denver and that was pretty cool. (I got a picture with one orphan for the memory) If I start asking myself why did these children get saved and others not I know I will get bogged down in nothing good. The focus should be thank you God for saving these 80 and please save many more. God is sovereign and for now I'll leave it at that. (this is one of those things I know in my head but it hasn't exactly made it's way home for me so i think I'm doing more lip service then anything)

You talk about famous people helping out. Well check this, Sean Penn just sat in on our update brief to the SCO tonight. He and his team are trying to get supplies, especially medical, without having to go through the red tape. I was briefing him on how I think he might be able to get the supplies in... It's cool but really I could care less. Great actor but give him another name with no famous part to it but with the same ability and I'd be just as happy. It's nice to know they're coming out here.