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In this week's edition of - 'Is This Gibberish or Just Something Joe Biden Said?' - the former vice president spoke about nurses at a Service Employees International Union SEIU) virtual roundtable on Wednesday, and the question above might not have ever been more applicable. Here's what Biden kind of said: …and I had nurses at Walter Reed Hospital who would bend down and whisper in my ear, go home and get me pillows. They would make sure, they’d actually, probably nothing ever taught in — and you can’t do it in the COVID time — but they’d actually breathe...

WASHINGTON — Steeling against rain and cold night air, clutching candles and placards, a group of activists are standing nightly vigils at the entrance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, protesting what they believe is the Pentagon’s attempt to hide the human toll of the war in Iraq. With wounded troops arriving from Germany, where most receive treatment after being stabilized in the field, flights to the United States are arranged so that soldiers are admitted into Walter Reed for follow on care at night. “When we first heard about this, we were appalled,” said vigil organizer Gael...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A few weeks before Christmas, I had the opportunity to once again visit some of America's finest young men and women who were wounded in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. These young warriors were recuperating in two of the finest medical institutions in the country -- the National Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. It is not the infrastructure, the architectural design or the budget that places these among the best. Like any first-rate institution, it is the people who make them great. They are staffed by soldiers, sailors and Marines. Doctors,...

WASHINGTON Dec. 18 — For the fourth time since the war on terror began, President Bush visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center Thursday to honor wounded soldiers and thank the medical staff, which has treated 2,100 patients from the Iraq war alone. Bush was visiting privately with "some of our bravest troops," who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. He was to meet with about 30 soldiers admitted to the hospital for orthopedic injuries stemming from service in the two nations. Separately, Bush was meeting with about 20 physical therapy outpatients and their...