With so much "real news" out there, who wants to bother with thinkng about Walter Reed Medical Center?

Yeh, why not continue to bombard us with stories about Anna Nicole Smith's body decaying in a morgue or Britney Spears checking out of rehab (yet once again) or the continuing saga of the astronaut love triangle and cross-country trips in a diaper?

It's only our wounded veterans whose discomfort is intensified by the sad conditions in Building 18 (and elsewhere across the country) that gets shoved to the back page.

Rats? Cockroaches (one shown above), human feces ... dilapidated walls? huh?

Shameful!