“Then I started checking out my leg. I knew my femur was broken, but at that time I didn’t know my calf was missing,” he says. “And that’s when I hear my best friend Maida and he started heaving.”
Rodgers takes a few loud, quick breaths to show what Mark Maida sounded like.
“And he breathes like that for a few seconds and then he just stops. And that’s when he died.”
This is in today’s Washington Post, but in Section C, not on the front page, which is inexplicable.
One day a nurse came in to ask Rodgers if he wanted to meet President Bush, who was visiting the hospital. Rodgers declined. I don’t want anything to do with him,” he explains. “My belief is that his ego is getting people killed and mutilated for no reason — just his ego and his reputation. If we really wanted to, we could pull out of Iraq. Maybe not completely but enough that we wouldn’t be losing people — at least not at this rate. So I think he himself is responsible for quite a few American deaths.”
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