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Oil paintings hang in the lobby of this strange outpost in the war on terrorism, where combat's urgency has been replaced by a trickling fountain in the garden courtyard.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 ...
The Post is the paper of Washington leftist snobs.
Please thank your husband for his service and I wish him a complete recovery.
kristinn, I see that FR's weekly counter-protest and show of military support is scrupulously avoided by these two hags.
Cowards.
Have at it ....I snagged it from someone else. Make it a poster .. bumper stick .. pin .. spread it around. How dare they !!!
I heard the obnoxious Jane Fleming throwing around nastiness about Walter Reed last night on Hannity's America. My first thought was "where the hell did she come up that?". Now I know. THIS is a disgrace and the WaPo needs a butt-whippin'.
The Washinton Post is not the only one attacking on the Walter Reed angle. This is a Democratic talking point I have seen on various TV news shows.
;*) We have a consensus!!!
I have to make a voodoo doll named Dana Priest.
This is one of the most disgusting articles I have ever read in the history of my knowledge of the Washington Post.
Oh how horrible!
It took them hundreds of hours to collect enough comments from discouraged or depressed patients and family members.
Hundreds of hours equals weeks of eight hour days, or months of visits. They really had to scour the halls to find some people making negative comments.
Anyone could spend hundreds of hours in any hospital anywhere and find discouraged and depressed people.
Pravda on the Potomac
God. This sickens me.
I know we should know our enemy, but I already know about Dana Priest. I can't stomach reading this article.
Exactly! Their "feature couple" left WR late last summer/fall. They have been sitting on this report for some time.
Ping
She really really cares.
Me, too. Disgusting.
How about this one.....
After multiple surgeries, amputations and ongoing rehab if they want to smoke a cigarette, they must go OUTSIDE to certain areas. No matter if it is raining, snowing, 20 degrees or 105 degrees.
Interesting point considering the pinkos tried to make their anit-war protest at the gates a vigil to "Save Walter Reed" a while back. Somewhere we have pics of those signs.
but there is NO, I repeat, NO conspiracy..it's just the normal way things work.
This article is vile and detestable. The two women who wrote it should bear the shame and stain of their action forever.
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Instead, they will win a Pulitzer and smilingly accept their awards at a dinner broadcast by cspan.
To me they are equivalent to the "Westboro Baptist church" demons.
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