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DEL.ICIO.USYep, that sounds like Charlie - almost
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rep. John Linder, a Republican from Duluth, did some reminiscing on the House floor last week while talking about a resolution that would rename the VA center in Augusta after the late Charlie Norwood, the longtime congressman from that town who died earlier this year.
Linder was talking about Norwood’s days in the Army, during which Norwood first proposed that dentists be sent to forward operating bases. Norwood was one of those dentist who went to the front and one day his commander called and asked him to file a report on anything “that’s out of the ordinary” at the front.
Linder: “Charlie said to him, ‘Well, I’ve got a chair here and you can come down here and sit your butt on it and write your own report, I just don’t have time.’ The colonel did come down, and they changed the entire way the Army did dental business because of Charlie’s ideas.”
That certainly sounds like Charlie. But, frankly, we’d rather hear the unrated version of that story. We just know there is one. After all, this was Charlie talking.
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