The Hotel Aftermath

Washington Post by Anne Hull, Dana Priest | Feb. 19, 2007 (Special Report)

Inside Mologne House, the Survivors of War Wrestle With Military Bureaucracy and Personal Demons

The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs of the 200-room hotel on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Oil paintings hang in the lobby of this strange outpost in the war on terrorism, where combat's urgency has been replaced by a trickling fountain in the garden courtyard. The maimed and the newly legless sit in wheelchairs ... Full Story »

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by Dale Penn - Feb. 19, 2007

Compelling investigative journalism (day two) by Dana Priest and Anne Hull, provides in depth stories of the personal cost of the Iraq war to our soldiers, and the frustrations they and their families are enduring with the US governments bureaucracy. I try to reserve 5 star ratings for stories like this which are few and far between.

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by Ben Ross - Feb. 20, 2007

A up close and personal account of situation at W. Reed. Very sad. The entire war effort needs this kind of personal reporting. Hard to keep from getting angry. So, good journalism, the reader is forced to view life as a US veterans injured in our Iraq war.

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