When he arrived at a naval hospital in Philadelphia after being wounded in Vietnam, the City of Brotherly Love was the last place Ronald D. Castille wanted to be.
Castille, a former Marine officer who lost his leg in 1967, said he wanted to be sent to the Navy’s orthopedic hospital in San Diego, even offering to pay his own way. But since he was born east of the Mississippi River, he was sent to Philadelphia.
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