So I'm reading a newspaper article about a veteran who was injured in Vietnam and placed in what I've always known as a "body bag" for the return home to America. A medic detected a faint pulse and rescued him, but the article said that he was rescued from a "KIA bag."
The only thing that popped into my mind was KIA the car, and I didn't understand what the car had to do with a wounded Vietnam veteran. I know KIA the car didn't arrive in America until the early 1990s.
Then the article finally told me what a KIA bag is -- KIA is an acronym for "killed in action."
Now I don't know about you, and I certainly have the greatest respect for our military service personnel, but when KIA the car first set up shop here in San Diego, I did, indeed think that if one had an accident on the freeway at 70 miles per hour, one just might be killed in action.
KIA the car says that KIA is roughly translated to English as "rising out of Asia," but I can just see some comedian somewhere talking about someone being "KIA in a KIA" now that this story has hit the newspapers.
Note to copyright police: Many of the words in my blog entry here -- the, in, of, was, Vietnam, I, KIA (the body bag, not the car), and probably a few others -- were lifted directly from the article so I will give credit where credit is due:
Source: "A Veterans Day story of rescue and reunion," by Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 11, 2008, pp. B1, B8.
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