Thursday, March 19, 2020

Where is Joe Pagano when you need him?

It was the summer of 1958.  This blogger was working for the Department Of The Army as a civilian, supervised by a WAC captain.  During the numerous nonbusy times I would talk with Joe Pagano, titled Mortuary Specialist.  The office was the Quartermaster for the entire First US Army which in addition to feeding and clothing soldiers, buried the dead.
I helped Joe organize his storeroom and came across a box of forms labeled "Next Of Kin Notifications".  Because there was no pending war I asked Joe if I should trash the box.  "No.  Another war will come along and we will be sending those out again," he said.  
He explained, "This is the time to prepare for a war, not after it starts."
Which leads us to this question:  Yes, the Center For Disease Control probably put in the time, but did they do the work needed to prepare the nation before War Disease broke out?  Another question:  All of us were brought up realizing the CIA was watching everyone including probably us.  So why weren't they watching China?
Joe Pagano was prepared for Vietnam.  If he wasn't retired he would have been prepared for Iraq.  Was the CDC prepared for us?

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