I had a cockroach in my hospital room. At the Malone House where my mother was staying as she was helping to take care of me, you know, I saw mice in their cafeteria. I didn't eat there. I wouldn't.
Tammy Duckworth: “I had a cockroach in my hospital room. At the Malone House where my mother was staying as she was helping to take care…”
On the recordMarch 5, 2007
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Tammy Duckworth shares her personal experience with substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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