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08-28-2005

Interview: Dr. John Pierce gives a look at Walter Reed's history

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For nearly a century, Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been a Washington fixture, a stately campus dotted with crepe myrtles. Last week, the Base Closure and Realignment Commission announced that the hosp...

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