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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject: The Malogne House: The Space Between Battlefield and Home

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR2005073100964.html

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The Space Between Battlefield and Home
Wounded Veterans Ready Themselves For Altered Lives

By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 1, 2005; Page A01
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Nobody ever wants to stay at Mologne House.

Soldiers who escape dying in battle by the narrowest of margins find their way here, to this hotel on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest Washington.

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The lobby, with illuminated chandeliers and oriental carpet, can be crowded with amputees. Peepholes in most room doors are at wheelchair level. And the snazzy maroon and gray hotel shuttle goes to the hospital around the corner, not the airport.

Mologne House is a place where grievous wounds can heal, where awful recollections can be put in some context and where residents prepare to go back into the world physically and psychologically changed

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