Meals, and Underwear, on Wheels for Workers
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A small city has sprung up at a Pentagon parking lot in Arlington to offer hot food, clean clothes and comforting conversation to those enduring the grim task of combing the rubble on the other side of the crippled building.
“Some of them [rescue workers] are having some real problems,” said Ronald Hester of Asheboro, N.C.
At the compound are trucks full of underwear and shirts for the workers. Under a Red Cross tent they can get treatment for minor injuries. Nearby is a McDonald’s truck in the shape of a hamburger bun.
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