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Transcript: Profile: Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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MICHELE NORRIS, MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
06-01-2005
Profile: Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Host: MICHELE NORRIS, MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM
MICHELE NORRIS, host:
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Michele Norris.
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
And I'm Melissa Block.
The end could be near for a famous military hospital. The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, is on the Pentagon's list of facilities it would like to close. Hundreds of thousands of servicemen and women have been treated at Walter Reed since it opened in 1909. Lisa Nurnberger of member station WAMU has a look back at the hospital's history.
LISA NURNBERGER reporting:
Legions of ...