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1. Pulse Oximeter Moves Out of Walter Reed August 29, 2011 The Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been a staple for over one hundred years in the United States and the District of Columbia. Over the years, it has served many service men and woman, and it has served as a leading center for research as well. Over the past weekend, when Hurricane Irene was set to hit the east coast, the medical center had its closing ceremony. The ceremony included a large number of Walter Reed staff and military personnel, and it included a flag-lowering ceremony as well. The gloomy skies added to the sadness and made something to make the ceremony all the more memorab... (read more) Author: Jack Rogers

2. Dogs are Playing a Big Role Helping Soldiers July 14, 2011 Meg Daley Olmert is not a soldier, or anything like that. She is a writer, but increasingly she has become a scientific explorer and her subject is dogs. Meg works in the Washington DC area with an organization called Paws for Purple Hearts. Paws raises and trains dogs to work with injured service men and women. You can meet the dogs at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, located off 16th Steet just north of the White House, or you can visit them at the Intrepid Medical Center on the campus of the Bethesda Naval Medical Center, not far from the Washington Beltway. At these places the... (read more) Author: Stephen Bryen

3. Wounded Warrior Program Aids Young Disabled Veterans June 02, 2011 A lethal roadside bomb wounded Master Sergeant Jeffrey Mittman on July 7, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. Though within 30 minutes of the attack Mittman was airlifted to a hospital in Baghdad, he sustained permanent bodily damage. When he awoke one month later at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., he was blinded in his left eye, his right arm was badly damaged, and he had lost his nose, lips, and most of his teeth. After the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, tales like Mittman’s have become increasingly more common. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq created more injuries resultin... (read more) Author: Hoang Dang

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