Word: weber
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...imagine having 20,000 soldiers pick up and move out in a three-week period. It's a lot more complicated than it looks," says Colonel Louis Weber. The logistics aren't all military. "You got to get your lawn service done, get your pet taken care of, close out your rent, turn off your cable and phone," he explains...
...combat veterans, for whom deployments are routine, know that what the Army requires its soldiers to bring with them is not the end of what is necessary. Weber still has grateful memories of the Army wife who told him to pack clothespins when he first deployed to the gulf, lest the wind toss his drying uniform in the sand. At the base PX and Wal-Mart, extra tent pegs and shower shoes are selling fast. So are watches with alarms that give the time in two time zones. Twizzlers. Extra thick boot insoles. Liquid laundry soap, because the water will...
...mood is raw in part because uncertainty is the enemy now. "Your kids ask, 'How long will you be gone, Daddy?'" says Colonel Weber. "And you say, I don't know. 'Will you have to kill anybody?' 'I don't know.' 'Will you go to Iraq?' 'Dunno.' And all that uncertainty weighs on you. In a deployment like this, you just don't know." The soldiers all talk about logistics and training and tying up loose ends. This is what we do. This is what we've trained for. But they hardly ever talk about...
...Boston Children’s Hospital a few days each week, studying the interactions between clown and patient to determine how medicine can be made more personable. Of course it’s not all fun and games, as he must throw in the philosophical theories of Max Weber, thereby “corrupting a fun topic in only the way social studies...
...Staff writer Renzo Weber can be reached at rweber@fas.harvard.edu