WARNING
the following post contains some items of a macabre nature
beth and i traveled out to walter reed hospital to visit the national museum of health and medicine. i've been wanting to go there since i arrived in DC, so i was very excited that it was also at the top of beth's list. it also happened to be beautifully empty of other tourists.
the sign is need of a little preservation itselfimmediately when you enter the museum, it is assassination central:
hey beth
squares and a space chimp
thumbs up
this reminded me of harry potter (the bezoar part. not the stomach-shaped hair below)
still is.
salute to facial reconstructionits pretty amazing actually what they could accomplish even during WWI
okay, so the prosthetic leg on the right was furtively fashioned in 1942 by 2 american inmates in a japanese prisoner of war camp for another POW with an amputated leg, from the remains of a leather belt and metal folding chair, whittled using only a pocketknife. WHAT.
dr. brennan?visitor comments!
people are impressed/disgusted/shit just got real
(as always, click to embiggen)
we made our own sunday night dinner
burritos, veggies, and a day surrounded by diseased organs and bones
what could be better?
I will never be able to look at that part in Harry Potter the same again. lol
ReplyDeleteAlso, that prosthetic leg made me have a what-am-I-DOING-with-my-life moment. hahaha
ha, me too
ReplyDeleteone of like, twelve per day
My dad used to work there at WRAMC, so I've spent a lot of time there, and s little time as possible in that museum. If you think the sign is bad, the entire campus used to be like that- run down. Maybe it still is, quien sabe?
ReplyDeleteit looked pretty nice otherwise from what we saw. nothing like a little bad publicity to spruce up the grounds
ReplyDeleteand the museum is AWESOME you should just live there to make up for lost time
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