Kirsty Wigglesworth / The Associated Press Lt. Ramses Brunache, attached to the 97th Military Police Battalion out of Fort Riley, Kansas, was born in Haiti and is trying to get redeployed to assist in the earthquake-torn country.
Haiti native in Afghan war wants chance to help
By Heidi Vogt - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Jan 18, 2010 8:29:39 EST
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Haitian-American Lt. Ramses Brunache was supposed to be the one in danger in Afghanistan. Now his sister is dead, his homeland is broken and he’s trying to return to help save Haiti.
Brunache found out about Tuesday’s earthquake in a 3 a.m. phone call from his wife at the base where he’s stationed in dusty Kandahar province, the Taliban’s southern heartland. He’s been here since July as a communications officer with the 97th Military Police Battalion out of Fort Riley, Kansas.
“She told me something happened in Haiti and my sister is not going to make it,” he said.
His wife lives in Atlanta and the only information she had at that point was from a text message saying that his sister, Immacula, and her three young daughters had been inside their house in Port-au-Prince when it collapsed. Her 12-year-old son was the only one who made it out.
Brunache went straight to the base’s Internet cafe and spent hours scouring news sites for details. He watched the death toll rise from hundreds to thousands from the magnitude-7.0 quake.
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