Although he made it home safely, the next morning, his wife took him to the emergency department at the Harry S. As he returned to his home in Columbia, Mo., after visiting his family in Kansas City, he began to feel ill. On New Year’s Eve in 1981, Heat-Moon was nearing completion of his first book, Blue Highways. VA Medical Center likely saved his life.Ĭritically recognized author William Least Heat-Moon’s latest book, Celestial Mechanics, is fiction-but the Navy Veteran will tell you it’s a fact that neither it nor his other works would have been published if not for an emergency visit to a VA hospital nearly 38 years ago. Heat-Moon is pictured above with the manuscripts for his first book, shortly after emergency surgery at the Columbia, Mo. VA writer Dan Bruneau heard about a critical connection between famous author William Least Heat-Moon and VA health care.
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