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After the Cold War

An old wound healed at the U-M hospital

by Walt Palesch

posted 5/10/2009

On a cold, dark, and drizzly November morning, my wife, Nancy, drove me to the University of Michigan Hospital. It was the final step on a journey that began more than a half century ago, playing with trucks and half-tracks in a village southeast of Berlin.

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