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Leaving an interpreter behind, Mr. Rieckhoff said, is "like leaving one of your soldiers back in Iraq and saying, 'Good luck, son.' " A Perilous Job The risk taken by interpreters in Iraq is considerable and widely documented.
DON Plan for the interpreter to sit or stand near the person who will be speaking the most.
From what we have seen, this can also contribute to post-traumatic stress among our veterans, who often feel that they left a member of their platoon — their interpreter — behind to die.
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Our soldiers never leave a comrade behind, but State is leaving the interpreters behind.
Kim turned his head toward an interpreter seated behind him.
Will Ireton, Maeda's interpreter, crouched behind them.
From the beginning, they've been playing with moviemaking, playing with the audience, the press, the deep-dish interpreters, disappearing behind a façade of mockery.
"Chairs are arranged to reflect the gravity of meetings so that the principal speakers have to talk uncomfortably sideways to one another with the interpreters sitting behind, which does not put visitors at ease for a cosy chat," he wrote.
"I found myself sitting at my own little table facing a row of half a dozen interviewers with microphones and headsets, and their associated interpreters sitting behind them in glassed-in boxes," recalls Bielak, who today works as a self-employed knowledge broker and writer based in Ontario, Canada.
Once, intelligence sources discovered that a patrol escorting her had been targeted for a suicide bomb attack, making the soldiers all the more nervous – only to discover that an interpreter had left behind his security-card.
(Hitler's usual interpreter, Ernst Züchner, took notes behind a curtain).
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