From Misurata

The most memorable — and hardest — moment was on Sunday, when casualties were streaming in at a rate of almost 10 an hour. A 5-year-old girl was brought into the triage tent with a bullet or shrapnel wound to the right side of her head. Bits of her brain were protruding from her skull, and her pupils seem to be fixed. Libyan doctors, including one who happened to be her uncle, and an Italian team tried to save her desperately. Doctors seemed to linger over her longer than others.

After 10 minutes, one of the Libyan doctors dropped his instruments and bent over the table she was on and broke down next to her motionless legs and feet, which looked so small next to him.

(via Bryan Denton Has Distinguished Himself in Libya, C. J. Chivers Reports. And Denton Shares His Story With Lens. - NYTimes.com)