01-08-2011, 02:10 PM
Greg I hope it is okidokie, to post your thoughtful remembrance, ..b
see article attached..
Greg Burnham, prominent JFK Researcher, tells of his personal experience with Walter Reed.
Great Historical anecdote......yet another unpublicized act of kindness by an accomplished General voted into the White House because of what he did for the Country.......
Today, many people vote for Presidents based on a PR campaign coming from nowhere and having accomplished nothing. Go figure?
Frog
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Burnham
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 8:20 PM
To: Ed T
Cc: treefrog
Subject: Re: Walter Reed Army Hospital to Close After 102 Years
Hi Ed,
While my father was working in the White House for President Dwight Eisenhower, my sister, Leora, had become very ill. She was born in 1944, spina bfida, and had multiple co-morbid disabilities as a result. By the time she was 15 in 1959 she had spent a great deal of time in hospitals. One morning my father failed to report to the White House as a result of my sister having become extremely ill with uremic poisoning due to a malfunctioning of her kidneys and bladder. She was rushed to Bethesda Naval Hospital as my father had been in the Navy. President Eisenhower inquired as to why my father was absent from his regular duties that morning and was told that my sister had become seriously ill and my dad was with her at Bethesda. President Eisenhower, being an Army man, immediately had his secretary connect him personally with both Bethesda and Walter Reed. He then proceeded to order that my sister be transferred from Bethesda to Walter Reed as soon as it was safe. Being an Army man, he apparently had more faith in the medical staff at Walter Reed than he had in those at Bethesda. The transfer was made and the president visited her there when she was feeling better. I remember seeing the glossy photograph of them together where he posed for a picture with her as he sat on her bedside. She was beaming with delight--and so was he.
Times have changed.
GO_SECURE
monk
Walter Reed Army Hospital to Close After 102 Years
http://www.christianpost.com/news/walter...ars-52772/
see article attached..
Greg Burnham, prominent JFK Researcher, tells of his personal experience with Walter Reed.
Great Historical anecdote......yet another unpublicized act of kindness by an accomplished General voted into the White House because of what he did for the Country.......
Today, many people vote for Presidents based on a PR campaign coming from nowhere and having accomplished nothing. Go figure?
Frog
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Burnham
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 8:20 PM
To: Ed T
Cc: treefrog
Subject: Re: Walter Reed Army Hospital to Close After 102 Years
Hi Ed,
While my father was working in the White House for President Dwight Eisenhower, my sister, Leora, had become very ill. She was born in 1944, spina bfida, and had multiple co-morbid disabilities as a result. By the time she was 15 in 1959 she had spent a great deal of time in hospitals. One morning my father failed to report to the White House as a result of my sister having become extremely ill with uremic poisoning due to a malfunctioning of her kidneys and bladder. She was rushed to Bethesda Naval Hospital as my father had been in the Navy. President Eisenhower inquired as to why my father was absent from his regular duties that morning and was told that my sister had become seriously ill and my dad was with her at Bethesda. President Eisenhower, being an Army man, immediately had his secretary connect him personally with both Bethesda and Walter Reed. He then proceeded to order that my sister be transferred from Bethesda to Walter Reed as soon as it was safe. Being an Army man, he apparently had more faith in the medical staff at Walter Reed than he had in those at Bethesda. The transfer was made and the president visited her there when she was feeling better. I remember seeing the glossy photograph of them together where he posed for a picture with her as he sat on her bedside. She was beaming with delight--and so was he.
Times have changed.
GO_SECURE
monk
Walter Reed Army Hospital to Close After 102 Years
http://www.christianpost.com/news/walter...ars-52772/