November 13, 2002
Photo:
Even the Enemy Gets Medical Attention
Joseph Hirsch #19
Oil on canvas, circa 1943
Gift of Abbott Laboratories
88-159-FS
Although a Marine guard is stationed at the door, this Japanese prisoner with malaria is accorded the same civil, careful treatment given our own sick men. Aiea Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor.
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men....Henry David Thoreau.
song playing....In the Still of the Night