But twice the narrative is interrupted by the arrival of an ambulance with young black men, gunshot victims of the ongoing fratricidal war in the poor communities.
The leading cause of death among young black men is gunshot wounds.
It was not until 2002 – seven years after James died, and after two further deaths by gunshot of young recruits at Deepcut – that Surrey police reinvestigated.
It is not unusual to see rebel soldiers limping around the holiday town of Antakya on crutches, and countless apartments across this area have been turned into makeshift combat field clinics, crammed with young, burly men nursing gunshot wounds.
A few years ago, hospital staff in Chicago refused to help a young man dying of gunshot wounds in the hospital driveway because of a rule that they were not allowed to leave the hospital building.
They included an unidentified member of the security forces who had apparently been killed and thrown in a river, a baby wrapped in a pink blanket, a female drowning victim, and a slim young man with a gunshot wound in his forehead.
Asked about gunshots, the young man let out a laugh.
Two-thirds of those victims survived to discharge after CPR, possibly because in Teeveeland, cardiac arrests occur most often in children, teenagers and young adults wounded by gunshots or injured in auto crashes.
She was one of four young soldiers found dead with gunshot wounds at Deepcut between 1995 and 2002, amid claims of a culture of abuse.
