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:



its 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
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