Abandoned Mail at Walter Reed Army Hospital - Why?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070616/army-botched-mail/

Having spent some horrible, pained days and weeks in a military hospital bed after leaving Viet Nam I know how it feels to be left out of the loop.

The disdain and downright perversity of the "civilian contractor" (read a Haliburton employee more than likely) is incredible.

Injured and damaged bodies need safe, sane, clean, reasonably bright and pleasant surroundings to make the steps of recovery. Things like mail are not just a soldiers RIGHT but sometimes part of the lifeline back to health.

The sickness that pervades our government generally is reflected by this simple nightmare at Walter Reed.

So many disasters could have been averted if things like Mail, food, medical treatment, recuperation time had been part and parcel of the big picture for our troops. EVERY TROOP, not just regular Army but ALL TROOPS CALLED UP BY BUSH AND HIS GANG (National Guard), all deserved free everything folks. Not a penny should have come from their pockets for food, quarters, travel expense - NOTHING.

But folks the big picture had nothing to do with Compassion. It had to do with Congressional, and executive corruption in the worst forms. Not just the party in power but the whole institution failed, Democrats and Republicans are all to blame for this state of affairs in the nuts and bolts of what happened.

Civilian contractors. Why civilian contractors? Why does the Army train whole Battalions of soldiers to be mail room personnel? Only, it seems, to have those postings taken over by indifferent, overpaid, apparently horribly incompetent Civilians.

Especially in a Hospital like Walter Reed, it seems so disturbing and horribly perverse.