Welcome back to part two with Robert Freeman, Doctrine and Covenant Sections 85 to 87.

I mentioned President Nelson is because of a second opportunity I had with him, which happened years later,

just a couple of years later, when he was invited to go back to Walter Reed Medical Center near Washington, D.C.,

and be a featured speaker on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Walter Reed Medical Center.

For those that don't know, Walter Reed is one of the premier medical facilities in this country.

When on occasion we hear of a president or other key

leadership of this nation having treatment, even regular routine check-ins. It's often at

Walter Reed Medical Center. This is the caliber of leader of surgeon that President Nelson was

to be assigned there.

You get a sense of that.

And he's invited back and he comes and he speaks to a full house, the auditorium there at Walter Reed,

after which the lineup of those that want to just come and shake the hand of this pioneer,

he gave a tremendous lecture.

I was fortunate to be able to join him for that occasion.

Then we visited the Museum of Medical Science that is there joining Walter Reed.

You learn of the advances of medicine that took place on the battlefield.

Because as true military historians know, so many of the casualties,

so much of the loss of life that happened in the early wars,

Civil War, as we've focused on here today,

they happened because of secondary infections

and such that would take place after the initial wound. It's things like penicillin and other

advances in medicine that came into play early on in the battlefields that gave a much greater probability of survivability of those that were being treated.

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