Posted on 02/18/2007 8:15:31 PM PST by kristinn
The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs of the 200-room hotel on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Oil paintings hang in the lobby of this strange outpost in the war on terrorism, where combat's urgency has been replaced by a trickling fountain in the garden courtyard. The maimed and the newly legless sit in wheelchairs next to a pond, watching goldfish turn lazily through the water.
But the wounded of Mologne House are still soldiers -- Hooah! -- so their lives are ruled by platoon sergeants. Each morning they must rise at dawn for formation, though many are half-snowed on pain meds and sleeping pills.
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Mostly what the soldiers do together is wait: for appointments, evaluations, signatures and lost paperwork to be found. It's like another wife told Annette McLeod: "If Iraq don't kill you, Walter Reed will."
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Two Washington Post reporters spent hundreds of hours in Mologne House documenting the intimate struggles of the wounded who live there. The reporting was done without the knowledge or permission of Walter Reed officials, but all those directly quoted in this article agreed to be interviewed.
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After a while, the bizarre becomes routine. On Friday nights, antiwar protesters stand outside the gates of Walter Reed holding signs that say "Love Troops, Hate War, Bring them Home Now." Inside the gates, doctors in white coats wait at the hospital entrance for the incoming bus full of newly wounded soldiers who've just landed at Andrews Air Force Base.
And set back from the gate, up on a hill, Mologne House, with a bowl of red apples on the front desk.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Walter Reed is an older hospital that is slated for merger with Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Its physical plant needs replacement and upgrading to be a hospital. To point this out is not disparaging the troops.
The meme for supporting the troops is already changing.
Support now means bringing them home so they don't die.
These are dangerous times we live in. Up is down.
Sorry, this series is about The Washington Post making Walter Reed out to be the American Abu Ghraib.
Ping.
Only needed to see the name Dana Priest.
Anne Hull
Dana Priest
I don't think I could dislike people like this more than I already do. If they can't undermine the troops one way they will try to do it another. I doubt they know any real military men and women who keep their sorry butts free and safe.
I had to edit my comment about 12 times to say something this neutral.
The washington compost, anything to hurt the war effort and sap the will of Americans.
Bump
I've read a few hit pieces in my life but this takes the cake. This sounds like it was written by Medea Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan.
I can't confirm or deny much of it but the above statement left out the fact that FReepers have been counter protesting every one of those Friday nights and outnumber the antiwar protesters many weeks.
WaPo, Dana Priest and Anne Hull are pathetic.
Maybe Anne Hull and Dana Priest are on the board of Code Pink?
Nah, they're probably vying for Gael Murphy's amor.
Dana Priest wrote the article leaking classified info from Mary McCarthy. She's tied in, professionally and maritally, with a whole cadre of folks on the left determined to destroy President Bush's Administration, and probably the whole country too. :-/
I've read a few hit pieces in my life but this takes the cake. This sounds like it was written by Medea Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan.
This is a perfect statement!
I can't confirm or deny much of it...
I can! Actually, I personally know a number of those featured in this BS propaganda hit piece. One says "our troops volunteered and those that criticize should get out and do their part."
I will be sending this disgusting piece of trash to a few of them!!! They need to take the lead from others who tell the media scumbag whores to "F-Off" and "H-No" I won't talk to you!
Oh, and BTW...Dell McLeod showed no signs of being "frightened by crowds" the night he attended a Gala in Richmond with 100s of people over a year ago. He seemed perfectly fine as he met and spoke with Zell Miller and Luke Strickland! He left Mologne House a few months ago.
I need to stop before my post is longer than this piece of garbage. I am beyond LOATHING these vile creatures sucking up valuable air...I HATE them!
Yeah, waaaaaaay outside the gates. Waaaaaaay down the block, as a matter of fact. Where they have been for over a year.
Why was this piece held back for so long?
Timed release to smear everything and everyone military?
Set to coordinate with the pigs in CONgre$$?
Funny...that Compost photographer stood out there with us for hours 10 days ago and never mentioned we were there.
I hate these scum sucking AHs.
Thank you, Justa. Had I not noticed you had already been pinged I would have pinged you. I knew you would have something to say about this.
Thank you again for confirming exactly what I suspected. To these two swine the glass is completely empty, life just isn't like that in the military or anywhere else, they're both despicable.
God bless our troops ~~ and keep them from vermin like this!
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