Scenarios like the one you described makes me more grateful than ever for my VA Hospital health care coverage (service connected disabilty). We have our over-crowding problems but everyone there speaks the common language of the land and are very patriotic and the staff are wonderful. It's nice to be among others who like myself fought and served our nation in time of its need. I just thought I give my thanks to a grateful nation.
As an aside. Unlike John Kerry who claimed to have been wounded three times (two scratches and one semi-serious wounding from what I've read) and getting himself three Purple Hearts for which he continuously brags about at every opportunity I was wounded three different times (all fairly seriously) but would only accept ONE Purple Heart. I guess it's how one is raised. And I didn't even need a camera to record it all either.
Kerrys case was almost as good as our company clerks two Purple Hearts. One for breaking his big toe when a box of supplies fell on it in his base office and the other for receiving a minor cut on his forehead when he got into a fight when he had been drinking at the BX cantina and this guy never saw a battlefield up close. He wrote up his own citations.
I'm in a suburb outside of Los Angeles. We are up to our armpits with these people. On the freeways where it would take 40 minutes to drive 40 miles, it now takes 2.5 hours to arrive at the same destination. It is as if their weekend amusements include getting on the freeway and sitting in the heavy traffic that used to only happen during certain rush hours.