“”I find it highly unlikely that the intent was to bar patients from receiving (wanted) religious texts and other items from their friends and families, but rather to bar visitors from proselytizing to other patients during their visits.””
Good grief! And you don’t think an experienced military offficer would have been able to write exactly that if that’s what was meant?
Oh, God, we can't have visitors proselytizing ... why, first thing you know, they'll be bringing bullhorns in here ......
Meanwhile, tonight's movie in the hospital rec center is Bowling for Columbine. Tomorrow night, on the weekly double feature, The Devil's Rejects and Saw III.