If there has been a more compelling case of the need for real crisis management than what has been happening with the deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, I do not know what it could be. And as is usually the case, government at any level provides us with the epitome of too little and too late.
Instead of trying to add to the chorus of what is wrong and what needs to be done now to take care of the young Americans who deserve to be cared for in the best of conditions, it made me curious to learn more about the man for whom this famous hospital is named.
Major Walter Reed, as you can read in this link, did nothing less than help to make the connection between mosquitos and diseases such as yellow fever. That one sentence barely scratches the surface of what Walter Reed and others had to go through to convince a host of skeptics that they had indeed found the cause of a disease that had cost the lives of many soldiers during the Spanish-American War.
As I read about what he had accomplished, it made me even more disgusted with what those in charge of the hospital named after him have done. This is a case of a man whose name is being damaged and he has absolutely no control over it.
Please pass on the real story of Walter Reed. He deserves to be remembered for what he accomplished, not for what others have failed to do with an institution named after him.
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