Make Sure It’s Me
It’s early 2006, and in a clinic run by Dr. Josephine Fitch, six veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are participating in a secret Pentagon study of the devastating brain injuries caused by repeated close exposure to the explosive force of IED blasts. Alarmed to discover that the Pentagon’s real intention is to obscure the truth about this new war injury that could cost billions in medical care and disability payments, Dr. Fitch makes the career-destroying decision to blow the lid off the Pentagon’s cover-up and speak to a New York Times reporter.
Read: “War is Brain Damaging”
New York Times Op Ed by Kate Wenner
Listen: “Make Sure It’s Me”
An NPR Feature Report
Einstein and Freud in Heaven
Einstein arrives for his weekly psychoanalysis with Freud in heaven, complaining that he is bored with death and wants to return to Earth to save humanity from itself. Freud tells Einstein, "Your optimism is curable," but as Einstein continues to insist on going back, the two men proceed to sing out their differences in combative medley of show tunes. "I say atomic. You say erotic." "You say anti-matter. I say anti-mother." They dance themselves into exhaustion until Freud remembers that he has God coming in next. He shoos Einstein out the back door, explaining, “God thinks he's the only one," while Einstein exits belting, "Life will be wonderful the second time around.” “Einstein and Freud in Heaven" was featured in the Ten Minutes in the Berkshires Play Festival where it won the Audience Favorite Award.