On Agent Orange, sugar, bikers and the VA

Today I went into the local VA Medical Center to have a precancerous growth hacked off my face. Waiting for the scalpel-wielding physician’s assistant to call me in, I sat and watched a parade of veterans move back and forth down the aisles. The VA here in Boise serves a population of over ninety-four thousand [...]

Tags: Agent Orange, biker, Boise, cancer, Clara Barton, diabetes, Florence Nightingale, Korean War, Purple Heart, shrapnel, Veterans Administration, Vietnam War, Walt Whitman, WWII