Army Seeks Blood Donations for Iraq War

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.startribune.com/587/story/406035.html

A boyish Army recruit sits quietly in a plastic chair at Fort Knox and shields a wince from the stern gaze of a drill instructor while a nurse digs with a needle for a vein in his arm.

The prick stings, but it has to be good luck, says Delgadillo Armando, a 17-year-old recruit who will soon leave for Iraq. The blood he has donated could save the life of an injured soldier there - maybe even his own, he said.

"Giving my blood is the least I can do,'' said Armando, a Los Angeles native. "I'm still in training, but I'm going to replace guys in Iraq. They need to stay in the game until I'm ready.''

Armando volunteered to donate his blood at Fort Knox with a dozen other soldiers from his boot camp platoon, joining the thousands of service members the military has asked to help supply blood to soldiers in Iraq and elsewhere.

[IA_Seth]

1. And let us all hope that is the last of his blood he will give. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

2. Blood Donations sites should be set up

in the White House and in the Republican congressional cloakroom.