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Mary Adelaide Mendelson, author of "Tender Loving Greed: How the Incredibly Lucrative Nursing Home 'Industry' Is Exploiting American's Old People and Defrauding Us All," discusses the state of nursing homes and the elderly. Mendelson discusses the isolation the elderly feel in nursing homes and how nursing homes have turned into a big business with little to no protection for the elderly. Studs plays "Hello in There" - John Prine (1971).
In his book, "Home From the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans", Robert Jay Lifton reflects on what he's learned from talking with soldiers who came home from the Vietnam War. For some men, guilt and betrayal were common issues -- guilt in what they had done while in Vietnam and betrayal of what their superiors and the government had told them about the war itself.