its tuesday night! which means i am naturally posting about sunday!
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.
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the sign is need of a little preservation itself
immediately when you enter the museum, it is assassination central:
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hey beth
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squares and a space chimp
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thumbs up
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this reminded me of harry potter (the bezoar part. not the stomach-shaped hair below)
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still is.
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salute to facial reconstruction
its pretty amazing actually what they could accomplish even during WWI
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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.
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dr. brennan?
visitor comments!
people are impressed/disgusted/shit just got real
(as always, click to embiggen)
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we made our own sunday night dinner
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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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