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...time I arrived, Jim was delivering a dozen shakes three times a week, a cost he absorbed for months until a group of VA colleagues chipped in for McDonald's gift certificates just before the holidays. About the same time, Jim had befriended a Vietnam vet and Washington restaurateur named Hal Koster, who offered to host Walter Reed patients at his Fran O'Brien's Stadium Steakhouse, located in the basement of the downtown Capital Hilton. Jim rounded up transportation and circulated the invitation on 57. Before long, Friday nights at Fran's became a tradition. Koster drew...
...much sleep socializing, and blocked all visitors and calls to my room. She disciplined my rambunctious son, who ran down the halls demanding to see the gun of everyone in uniform. She helped me decide to euthanize my 15-year-old cat. I had been informed by the vet that he was dying of kidney trouble, and the question was whether to attempt a heroic procedure. "Putting a suffering animal to sleep is the last great act of love you can do for him," said Tami, who had a houseful of felines herself. I made the call and bawled...
...precise nature of Armitage's message to the Pakistanis in 2001 is open to question. A barrel-chested Vietnam vet who still lifts weights, Armitage - who left the State Department last year - can be intimidating in meetings. But diplomats don't as a rule threaten military action unless they've been authorized to do so, and Armitage, a seasoned envoy, insists he "never said it" because that was not his instruction from Washington. But he does admit to delivering a strong message to Musharraf's aide that Pakistan was either with the U.S. or against...
...abroad, and hopeful about the next generation of leaders. I wish that Huze and Sarra and a few others would run for Congress, to serve as the haunted, haunting conscience of the American grunt. "Many of us are realizing, the military, that fight wasn?t our fight," one vet says. "This is our fight...
...under secretary for health. Kizer decentralized the VA's cumbersome health bureaucracy and held regional managers more accountable. Patient records were transferred to a system-wide computer network, which has made its way into only 3% of private hospitals. When a veteran is treated, the doctor has the vet's complete medical history on a laptop. In the private sector, 20% of all lab tests are needlessly repeated because the doctor doesn't have handy the results of the same test performed earlier, according to a 2004 report by the President's information technology advisory committee...