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Call in Hell
1. Before reading the article, define “hero”
using your thoughts about heroic people you have known, seen or read
about. Your answer should be at least
four complete sentences. Use examples
to show the qualities of a hero.
2. Who is Richard
Jadick?
3. Why did he go to
4. Where did he serve
there?
5. What is the
"golden hour"?
6. What happens to it
during combat?
7. Why did Jadick go
into the combat zone?
8. How did Jadick feel
when he first saw combat?
9. What was Jadick’s
college and military background? (There
should be at least 4 or 5 details in your answer)>
10. What is the goal of
battlefield triage?
11. What is Hespan?
12. How did Jadick save
Private Paul Volpe?
13. Where did Jadick set
up his battlefield emergency room?
14. How did Jadick and
his team prepare the battlefield emergency room for patients?
15. Why did Jadick
continue to have problems keeping a sterile environment?
16. How did Jadick's
training as a doctor conflict sometimes with his training as a Marine?
17. Jadick gets angry at
one of his clerks for wandering off, but what was the clerk really up to?
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18. How did Jadick's
team deal with the cold weather?
19. What is PTSD?
20. Why didn't Jadick
see much of it?
21. What awards and
verbal praise did Jadick receive?
22. In what ways did Richard Jadick fit your
definition of a hero? In what ways doesn't he fit? Your answer should be at least four complete sentences.