'There was so little we could do,' soldier says

by IDA HOLYFIELD - Editor
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'When we first got there, we were handing out crackers and bottled water. That's all we had to give people. And they were grateful for that. You thought about the kids that were going hungry, and that's all their mother could get for them. Trucks were carrying bodies out of the city and dumping them in mass graves, and people were making shelter out of anything they could get their hands on — empty cardboard boxes, you name it. While we were there, three more quakes hit, and each time, people just got up and went on,' Pvt. Trevor Sturgill said.


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