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Historian of sci, tech, and American politics. Author of *Coal & Empire* w/@JHUPress. Associate Professor of History @CWRU. Edits @HistOpinion. I ❤️ Archives.

Oct 4, 2020, 6 tweets

It will never not be confusing to me that today’s “Walter Reed” is not the old “Walter Reed,” which was shut down, but what I grew up calling the “Bethesda Naval. Hospital” (or just “Bethesda Naval”)

My late grandmother lived less than a mile away.

Wikipedia has a list of prominent people who died at the old Walter Reed

I knew James Forrestal tragically took his own life, but I didn’t know it was at Bethesda Naval, now the new Walter Reed

Look at the havoc this is causing!

All those viral tweets with photos of Walter Reed’s “presidential suite” were from the *OLD* Walter Reed! usatoday.com/picture-galler…

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