“I felt that I hadn’t been adequately trained to take up emergency medical treatments, all the pressure and everything.” He became a field medic but admits he felt overwhelmed by the medical challenges he would soon face in battle. He was from Chicago, the son of Assyrian immigrants from Iran, a pre-dental student who enlisted in the Army in 1942. And he remembers the long months of recovery, first in liberated Paris, then in England, and all the terribly injured men around him.
