HEIDI VOGT
Associated Press Writer
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.