Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
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Sep 11, 2026
Coleman HughesHOST
Mm.
Frank SillerGUEST
And I went down with a group, a couple of us from the foundation went down to visit him at Walter Reed.
Frank SillerGUEST
And when I was down there, his father asked me to talk to him, and while talking to him, I said, "Brendan, can we build you a home?" This is a Staten Island kid.
Frank SillerGUEST
I'm from Staten Island, so this, all, all of us were born on Staten Island.
Coleman HughesHOST
Yeah.
Frank SillerGUEST
So we built the first home, and that changed the foundation forever.
Frank SillerGUEST
That one situation, that one visit down to Walter Reed put us on a, a, a, on a mission that, uh, we're so proud that we're on 'cause I kept on going down.
Frank SillerGUEST
I met four other quadruple amputees over the next six months.
Tony DolanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The soldiers were there for the first of many tours of the Pentagon organized for the wounded and their families.
Tony DolanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
For many, this was their first time outside the rooms and hallways of Walter Reed Hospital since their injuries, so they had trouble handling what came next.
Tony DolanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
As they came around a corner, the hallway erupted with thousands of cheering, flag-waving Department of Defense employees.
Tony DolanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Many of those in the parade of crutches and wheelchairs, including family members, were overcome as they moved along.
Basil ValentineCORRESPONDENT
But, but-
Ryan DawsonGUEST
We have DNA from all the passengers except the babies sitting at Walter Reed.
Ryan DawsonGUEST
There's a plane-sized hole in the front of the Pentagon and debris from the plane in the Pentagon.
Basil ValentineCORRESPONDENT
Right.
Basil ValentineCORRESPONDENT
Yeah, I mean, there, there, there's, there are, are a couple of stills showing that it passed over the Pentagon, and the Pentagon was actually hit by something else.
Basil ValentineCORRESPONDENT
And we know that they deposited debris on the lawn afterwards to-
Ryan DawsonGUEST
You have all the firemen, you have all the medical personnel, you have all the employees, all the EMTs, you have all of Walter Reed, you have all those passengers who are dead that did not just disappear.
Ryan DawsonGUEST
You have all the witnesses that saw the plane go to the Pentagon, none who saw it fly away from the Pentagon.
speaker_13AUDIENCE
Good morning.
speaker_13AUDIENCE
I remember 9-11 like it was yesterday because I actually was working at the original Walter Reed store.
speaker_13AUDIENCE
Army Hospital the day that happened so it was pretty crazy there and the office that I was in just on the other side of the wall was the Commerce room which was the Emergency Operations Center for that day and also the church that I was going to in Virginia there was a married couple and his wife was one of the people that died at the Pentagon
BillyAUDIENCE
remember
WilcoxHOST
I mean, you talk about that.
WilcoxHOST
That's just the whole tragedy of that is – and people injured and, you know, they're – The list goes on and on.
WilcoxHOST
Fun fact, I dated the commanding officer of Walter Reed's daughter.
WilcoxHOST
That's
Grace BarterHOST
It was a beautiful sunny day interrupted by fighter jets overhead, scrambling in full afterburner as acrid black smoke rose from the Pentagon three miles away.
Grace BarterHOST
I arrived home to an empty apartment as my wife had just arrived at Walter Reed Medical Center with our son for an appointment.
Grace BarterHOST
They locked the gates behind them as they were the last customers to be seen that day.
Grace BarterHOST
Our daughter was being kept at school until someone could pick her up.
Erick MiyaresGUEST
Yeah.
Erick MiyaresGUEST
You s- you guys both said something a- and, and again, and again here, and I'm, I'm, and now I'm fortunate that post-processing, um, and when I went to, uh, NICoE, the National Injure- uh, Injury Center of Excellence for Traumatic Brain Injuries, it, it's generally here at, um, in Walter Reed area, we get a lot of, uh, special operators that, that come that are, you know, 15, 20 years into career, and these guys are burnt out.
Erick MiyaresGUEST
And, and so the, the command sent them to this one-month program.
Erick MiyaresGUEST
And so one of the key things, uh, about NICoE and traumatic brain injuries and PTS, if you would, is based on triggers, right? And so when we did this exercise really quick on triggers, I was, it's gonna kind of almost be like a joke.
Geoff BennettHOST
What followed was a grueling recovery, one the News Hour chronicled at the time.
Geoff BennettHOST
Schaefer was rushed to the Walter Reed Medical Center initially, and then treated for months in the burn unit at the Washington Hospital Center.
Geoff BennettHOST
Schaefer suffered second and third degree burns over nearly 50% of his body, along with severe lung damage from smoke and jet fuel.
Geoff BennettHOST
He spent months in the hospital, much of that time on a ventilator, underwent nearly 20 operations and skin grafts, and twice came close to dying when his heart stopped.
Mark ReierNARRATOR
Mr. Fetterman was elected in 2022 after he had a life-threatening stroke in the middle of the most competitive Senate race in the country.
Mark ReierNARRATOR
Shortly after being sworn in, he checked himself into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to be treated for depression for six weeks and appeared to make a remarkable recovery as he began speaking out about the importance of getting help when needed.
Mark ReierNARRATOR
But then, in 2024, he began retreating from his job, rarely attending committee meetings, casting votes, or holding town halls.
Mark ReierNARRATOR
He has since expressed remorse for speaking openly about his mental health and claimed that the criticism he gets for missing votes in committee hearings is because of it.
Mark ReierNARRATOR
Mr. Fetterman was elected in 2022 after he had a life-threatening stroke in the middle of the most competitive Senate race in the country.
Mark ReierNARRATOR
Shortly after being sworn in, he checked himself into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to be treated for depression for six weeks and appeared to make a remarkable recovery as he began speaking out about the importance of getting help when needed.
Mark ReierNARRATOR
But then, in 2024, he began retreating from his job, rarely attending committee meetings, casting votes, or holding town halls.
Mark ReierNARRATOR
He has since expressed remorse for speaking openly about his mental health and claimed that the criticism he gets for missing votes in committee hearings is because of it.
Mark SimoneHOST
That's, that's White House, uh, physical.
Mark SimoneHOST
The presidential physical at Walter Reed.
Mark SimoneHOST
I know, I've talked to people who've gone through it.
Mark SimoneHOST
It is the most thorough five-hour physical ever in history.
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