*written by Jonathan M. Metsch on September 14, 2001; published in the Jersey Journal on September 18, 2001 Suddenly a huge white military hospital ship with four Red Crosses steamed by and docked right across river. I thought how this hospital ship brought the war even closer to home but mostly about how the hospitals
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