Veterans Serve their Country Twice: Another Healthcare Approach
There is a village in Africa where the people were starving from malnutrition and going blind from a Vitamin A deficiency while a billion dollar pharmaceutical company, who had donated a year’s supply of vitamins and nutrients, watched the goods they had donated sit and spoil in an airport’s hanger because no one had the money, knowledge or will to gas up the plane and have the medicine delivered.
We worked and strained on the heated, smoking “pile” of rubble which was once the mighty World Trade Center on that September 11, while our shoes melted, our bodies sweated and we had no water. When I left the site later in the evening, I was forced to traverse that mountain of concrete and steel like a lost urban Sherpa and like a hapless explorer, I discovered something on the other side of the mountain: a dustless, large, shiny, unattended truck loaded with water bottles. Continue reading “Veterans Serve their Country Twice: Another Healthcare Approach” »
