{"id":117997,"date":"2023-02-15T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=117997"},"modified":"2023-02-15T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:02:33","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-why-there-is-no-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=117997","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae Why There is No Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=117997\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=117997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-117998 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download-1.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renpet and I sat on our little kitchen terrace.<\/p>\n<p>It was a quiet time for us as she awaited the limousine that would soon whisk her away to some place or other.<\/p>\n<p>The whisking away in limousines was not unusual for my feline cousin, Renpet, as she is an (allegedly) retired CIA officer.<\/p>\n<p>It is usual for the family to have a warning that she is about to leave for parts unknown when we see her nondescript bag at the door.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Turning to her I said \u201cCuz, no bag? You\u2019re going somewhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Purring softly, she said, \u201cThis is one little excursion that I can tell you about. It is just a gathering of retired females from my former employ. We get together a couple of times a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renpet continued, \u201cWe\u2019re meeting to discuss a colleague who served in the OSS in World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve heard of the OSS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renpet explained, \u201cAs you can well imagine, during world War II there was a great need for intelligence gathering and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrank Knox was the secretary of the navy at that time and he urged President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help the British survive by establishing such an agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, Roosevelt issued an executive order which created the OSS. An attorney who was also a hero in World War I was commissioned as a general of the army and he was chosen to lead the agency. That was the famous William \u201cWild Bill\u201d Donovan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, President Harry Truman shut down the Oss in 1945 and in 1947, he created the CIA with many former OSS operatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, that was a cool history lesson\u2026but please you tell us so little but you said you could tell me what this meeting is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Always immaculate Renpet cleaned her tail then answered \u201cIt\u2019s about Jane Burrell, who worked for the OSS. She was a brilliant woman, fluent in French. She was married to a naval officer stationed in Washington. We don\u2019t know how she heard about the OSS, but she applied and became an officer in 1943.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the OSS metamorphosed into the CIA, she became a CIA officer and was the first CIA officer to die while she was serving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer duties are very unclear to our retired female CIA group, but a few of my colleagues have found declassified records showing that she never had any official recognition for her work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is believed that she died during a mission, but there is no star for her on our Memorial Wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, Renpet, I thought there were never any names on that wall, anyway, just a star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue, but we \u2018know\u2019 whom each star represents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2003, a paper was released indicating that Jane Burrell worked with a team that was searching for Nazi Gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was on January 6, 1948 that she was returning from Brussels on an Air France DC-3 . It appears that the pilots misjudged their approach to the Le Bourget airport just outside of Paris. All sixteen passengers on that flight perished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJane Burrell had been listed under a false identity and was noted as an American clerk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe never got her star because her death occurred on a commercial aircraft and did not qualify her for that recognition.<\/p>\n<p>A horn interrupted our family chat and as we walked downstairs, I said to Renpet, \u201cI would really like to hear more of her story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She did not respond as she walked toward the door.<\/p>\n<p>I reminded her that she had once told me that I could ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to smile as the door was opened for her by a very husky gentleman in a dark suit, she answered, \u201cYes, you can ask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Curmudgeon suggests &#8220;Bitter Medicine\u201d, Dr. Eugene Eisman&#8217;s story of his experiences&#8211;from the humorous to the intense&#8212;as a young army doctor serving in the Vietnam War.<br \/>\nBitter Medicine by Eugene H. Eisman, M.D. &#8211;on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Medicine-Doctors-Year-Vietnam\/dp\/0615874347\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<\/p>\n<p>SERMO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermo.com\">www.sermo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist Renpet and I sat on our little kitchen terrace. It was a quiet time for us as she awaited the limousine that would soon whisk her away to some place or other. 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