Tuesday, July 08, 2003

MAKING A DIFFERENCE.

This is one of the so-called "carrot measures".
The rumble and roar of machinery quickly drew dozens of curious young children and their parents out into the street to see Army equipment piling tons of trash several feet high before loading it into dump trucks that left for a distant landfill. The trucks traveled to the landfill more than 100 times that day.

As the heavy equipment tore into the dirty, rancid field, a team of Army medics and a doctor applied a more personal touch inside a nearby clinic. A medical team temporarily converted a classroom of a nearby private girls' elementary school into a treatment room.

As soon as the doors to the temporary clinic opened, lines of women, many of them with their young children, formed outside. During the next day and a half Maj. David Harden, the dermatologist at Fort Riley, saw more than 200 patients.

Read it all here.

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