RIGA - Nurse Karen Flaherty has already helped provide first aid to 80 casualties from a plane crash in Adazi. There are still 120 bodies scattered in the nearby forest."Can you talk to me? Can you hear me?" she asks Andris, a young Latvian soldier with pieces of glass embedded into his blood stained face. After checking his vital signs, Flaherty writes "expectant" on his military fatigue with a black marker."It means he will die," she explains.Fortunately for Andris, his injuries are the work of make-up artists, not the result of a real crash landing.The simulated plane accident, held July...
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