A Repository for Bottled Monsters: Feed the Dawgs

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Feed the Dawgs

Mike Lemish, one of our researchers who wrote a book on military working dogs in Vietnam, (due out in February) sent me an email about a fund-raising effort to Feed the Dawgs. A small group of volunteers provides a steak dinner to returning and deploying dog handlers, and they need cash to do it. If you can help, please do. This latest fund-raising effort is for Marines at 29 Palms. OOHRAH!!

Here's Mike's email:

Just wanted to pass this along to all my "dog friends." I know things are tight all around but if your are looking to support our troops (both 2-legged and 4-legged) this may a good choice. More info at their site http://feedthedawgs.com/FeedtheDawgs.aspx If you get a chance, check it out.

ARF!

Mike

Vaughn,

Will you forward my email to the other VDHA Unit Directors and have them pass it on to the members of their units. The Feed the Dawgs guys are doing a great thing for today's dogmen and women. They can use our support if any of the guys can afford to make a donation.

Thanks,

Jim Stewart 377 SPS Unit Director VDHA

377 SPS K9 9/67-9/68 Dobe 7X49

Guys,

I just received an email from our brother 377 SPS dogman, Jon Hemp. He is involved with Feed the Dawgs, to which I have just made a donation, and they could use some additional donations to keep going. Jon explained their upcoming project like this.

Just about every time it looks like we're running out of fuel and headin' for the ditch, someone steps up. No money from donations has ever been spent on anything BUT the new troops. A big piece of your donation will go towards feeding 82 3rd Marine Division Dawgs at 29 Palms on 7 November. Best guess is that the event will cost us approximately $700 to $800 once we have a final headcount including family members, vet detachment, PAO personnel and the Base Commander - estimated now at 130 people.

The Feed the Dawgs web site is at: http://feedthedawgs.com/FeedtheDawgs.aspx

If you can help this group of guys feed some of today's MWD handlers send your donation in the name Jon Hemp to:

Jon Hemp

1437 Revelation Way

Redlands, CA 92374

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Mike Rhode was the chief archivist of the Museum from 1989-2011, and is the founder of this blog. I maintain an interest in the course of the museum, and will be posting relevant information.

The Army Medical Museum was founded in 1862 during the American Civil War. After World War II, a parent-child relationship was inverted and the Museum became part of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Since then, the Museum has moved around Washington, stopping for years in Ford's Theatre, and on the National Mall where the building it shared with the National Library of Medicine once stood, until it was demolished in 1968 for the Hirshhorn Museum. For 35 years it was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and now is in Silver Spring, MD.

So what about that blog name?

It's historical. I found it in a quote from one of the former curators. World War II confirmed the Army Medical Museum's primary role in pathology consultation. James Ash, the curator during the war and a pathologist, noted, "Shortly after the last war, more concerted efforts were instituted to concentrate in the Army Medical Museum the significant pathologic material occurring in Army installations." He closed with the complaint, "We still suffer under the connotation museum, an institution still thought of by many as a repository for bottled monsters and medical curiosities. To be sure, we have such specimens. As is required by law, we maintain an exhibit open to the public, but in war time, at least, the museum per se is the least of our functions, and we like to be thought of as the Army Institute of Pathology, a designation recently authorized by the Surgeon General."

After the war, it evolved into the tri-service Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

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