We heartily agree with Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, U.S. Air Force Veteran that, "Good people drink good beer."
Although I've been here many many times as we consider it our neighborhood bar, I surprised myself to discover I'd never reviewed it. We usually visit Brasserie Saint James at Happy Hour. We again asked what was seasonally available, and found as usual each was aromatic and mouth-watering and nose-tickling. That is why there is a beverage to be found sloshing at the depths of our national soul and that is beer.
Clientele was the usual eclectic mixture of tourists and locals.
The customer service was generally casual stoic-sanguine satisfactory with several moments of sophisticated thoughtful and erudite.
Has world class: beer, elevated comfort food, cool vibe, elegant ambiance all in a historical building.
Prices were an okay sightly above average.
Place was clean.
Did what they're in business to do.
No automatic gratuity was added to our bill.
No one here offered to commit fraud to reward us, pay us or compensate us for posting 5 star reviews of this business.
I rate 'em 3 stars. According to Yelp ratings' definitions, that's "Ok". That to me is an acceptable rating of something that does day in and day out what it is there to do. It's NOT a negative review because doing day in and day out what it is there to do is NOT an easy thing to accomplish.
Brasserie Saint James has taken the pledge To Leave No Veteran Behind. The owners of this business like their Freedom so they have a thank you Military and Veterans Discount as a publicly disclosed daily Veteran Discount which provides resource to ensure Veterans (rare 7% of the population) and GIs (rare one-half of one percent of the population) opportunity to participate in American Dream Veterans and GIs' sacrifices have made possible for 100% of the population. That earned 'em a fourth star rating. I found this business to again be above-average for being accommodating to we disabled Veterans for our Special-Needs due to our military Service connected disabilities. That earned 'em a fifth star rating as none more cherished in a disabled Veteran's life than those who lighten the burdens from our military Service.
No complaints. I'll be back.
March is Women's History Month
Often with little power or sway on their own, nurses - historically mostly women -- have been a force of will and a sense of common decency, and paved the way towards better care and a more compassionate society.
Commitment to Duty is a mind-set that Diann Hale maintained during her entire life. She received her Nursing Diploma from Highland School of Nursing in Oakland, CA, in 1955.
She joined the US Air Force July 1956. She Served Stateside until her assignment to Air Force hospital at Moron Air Base, Spain, February 1959.
March 1962, Hale returned to US and was assigned to Air Force hospital at Mather Air Force Base, CA. She then completed Flight Nurse course at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, September 1962.
Hale earned Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing through Air Force Institute of Technology program at University of California, San Francisco in 1966.
From July 1966 to July 1968, she was assigned as a Flight Nurse and later Assistant Chief Nurse for 901st Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan. Hale was then selected as Flight Nurse Reserve Adviser ssigned to March Air Force Base, CA. She was then assigned to Scott Air Force Base, IL in May 1970, as Flight Nurse Adviser for Reserve Affairs in Office of the Command Surgeon at Headquarters Military Airlift Command.
In August 1972, she returned to the University of California, San Francisco to begin graduate studies. She received a Master of Science degree in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, in June 1973. After graduation Hale was assigned to Germany where she Served as Supervisor of Outpatient Nursing and then as Assistant Chairman, Department of Nursing at the Air Force hospital at Wiesbaden Air Base.
In August 1975, she became Chief Nurse at the US Air Force Regional Hospital at Shaw Air Force Base, SC. In December 1976, she was named Chairman of the Department of Nursing at the USAF Medical Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, with additional Duty as the Command Nurse for Headquarters Air Force Logistics Command. From March 1978 to May 1979, she served as Air Force Logistics Command's Command Nurse.
Hale was then assigned to the Medical Inspection Directorate at Headquarters Air Force Inspection and Safety Center, Norton Air Force Base, CA. In May 1982, she was assigned to Headquarters Air Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, as Command Nurse.
Hale was promoted to Brigadier General, O-7 out of a maximum of 10 ranks, 1 Oct 1982.
After 29 years of military Service, Brigadier General Diann A. Hale retired in 1985.
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