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One of the last 18 patients leaves Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Aug. 27, 2011, for the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., marking the end of an era before the two flagship hospital merge.

END OF AN ERA

One of the last 18 patients leaves Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Aug. 27, 2011, for the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., marking the end of an era before the two flagship hospital merge.

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