Word: jessie
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Squeezed between them, her own weapon still useless as anything except a club, Jessi could only watch. "They were on both sides of the street, and we were trapped in the middle, and they were hurtin' us bad," said Jessi. The Iraqis used rocket launchers to cripple the trucks. The grenades exploded against sheet metal or blew up geysers of sand. "I didn't kill nobody," Jessi said. She seemed ashamed. "We left a lot of men behind...
...could drink a cup of coffee, eat a piece of pie or pump a tank of gas without talking about her and wondering if she was alive or dead. That night, a nurse, an older woman, came to the room and sang her a lullaby, and even though Jessi did not know what the words meant or what it was for, the woman's voice was warm and soothing and loving, and it calmed her, for a while...
There were doctors and nurses in the operating room, waiting for her. Jessi was confused. She had thought that they were through, that they had done all they could...
...tried to cover her face with a mask. She fought. She whipped her head from side to side, to keep them from clamping the mask down on her nose and mouth. It slipped from her face again and again, and all the time, an unseen child screamed and screamed. Jessi screamed with him as the nurse tried to put her to sleep. "Stop," she heard one of the doctors say. The nurse lifted the mask from her face...
...never interrogated. "No one even asked me anything about our troops. I couldn't answer anyway." Jessi said all she could have told them was that she was a clerk, in charge of pencils, packs and toilet paper...