A taste of danger
“From the screams, I think they just blew somebody up,” Stephanie Kayden said matter-of-factly. A short distance away, through the still-bare trees of early spring in New England, a man was screaming in pain, his leg blown off by a land mine. Despite his distress and the urging of refugees nearby, members of a Red Cross response team balked at entering the minefield where he lay. Eventually, one of the man’s companions dragged him to safety, where the Red Cross workers put a tourniquet on his leg and then helped him, hopping on one leg and crying in pain, to a field hospital. “It’d be nice if they carried him,” Kayden remarked as she watched the small group hobble by. Kayden was able to keep her cool not only because of her long experience in humanitarian aid, but also because the casualty was a volunteer actor and the Red Cross workers were students in...