Saturday, March 28, 2009

Doctor in Iraq

When we talked about Doctor Pryor in class, something that was never brought up but I was thinking about was the brothers comment on how he was still trying to find out what happened to his brother. The brother mentions trying to track down a fellow doctor on the internet who had posted about the incident online, but had no success. It almost seems as though the army is trying to cover it up, although I'm sure they only give the minimum information to all families, when an individual dies, and never give them the full facts. I found this part of the article interesting though because I see the family as being somewhat anti-war as well, because they did not want him to go back into the war plus Pryor himself showed feelings of antiwar when talking about the kids being in war. So, I still can't understand why they would dishonor his wishes of having a normal burial. It is possible that they are opting for an army memorial because they want to get rid of those anti-war feelings and believe he died for a purpose and it could also be that they want some clarity on how he died.

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