The medics are working frantically to stem the flow of blood, sterile dressing’s crimson red as they fight to stop the flood, a boy just barely twenty blown to pieces by a mine, in a country far away from home his life’s now running out of time.
“And the men back home who sent him there they just don´t give a toss, Cos there´s more where he has come from, his death to them is not a loss”
The medics have not slept for days as they tend the constant stream of the wounded, blind and dying amidst the crying and the screams, the Quartermaster’s ordered another batch of body bags, plasma, blood and dressings, and for the coffins, another twenty flags.
“And the men back home who sent them there they just don´t give a toss, cos their agenda´s more important than the counting of the cost”