Emmy Award-winning Feagler & Friends is a lively, weekly half-hour television discussion of local and national issues impacting lives in Northeast Ohio. Hosted by award-winning journalist and former Plain Dealer columnist, Dick Feagler, Feagler & Friends explores the various issues behind today's news. With a changing ensemble of "friends" ranging from journalists to community and political leaders, Feagler & Friends takes on issues from many different perspectives. Always entertaining and never boring, Feagler & Friends is the program for people "in the know" in Northeast Ohio.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Topics: Health, Other
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Newsmaker: Dr. James Banks, professor emeritus of history, Cuyahoga Community College and creator of the Crile Archives and Center for Military History Education. Northeast Ohio played a key role in the healing of American veterans wounded in World War II, and later, the Korean War. In 1943, the government broke ground for one of the largest U.S. military hospitals, Crile General Hospital. Crile received its first patients in April of 1944 when a hospital train rolled into Cleveland carrying 227 veterans wounded in the European theater of operations. In the 20-plus years that followed an estimated 20,000 people were treated at Crile. It also served as housing for 300 German POW’s and a limited number of Italian POWs. Crile operated as a military hospital until 1964 when the VA’s Wade Park facility opened. The hospital was later used to house the western branch of Tri-C. The building was torn down in 1975. New buildings comprising Tri-C’s western campus rose in their place.

Japanese Internment: Just over two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt ordered removal of 120,000 ethnic Japanese people from their homes on the west coast. Some were Japanese-born, but the majority was American-born. Thousands were held in specially-built internment camps, but others were dispatched to live in the American heartland. It’s a little-known fact of Cleveland history that 3,000 Japanese-Americans were sent here and some of their descendants remain. Ideastream’s David C. Barnett will tell their story.

Newsmaker II: Thomas Campanella, director of MBA in Health Care Management program, Baldwin-Wallace College. With summer vacation behind us, Americans are becoming more focused on the 2008 presidential campaign. Senator Hillary Clinton made news this week when she presented a plan to ensure all Americans have health insurance. Individuals, employers and government would share the cost. All of those who’ve entered the race have addressed health care because it’s expected to be an important campaign issue. We’ll evaluate the plans and discuss the chance of success for plans that envision greater federal involvement.

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