Don't
know whether you heard about this but
Denzel Washington and his family visited the
troops at Brook Army Medical Center, in San
Antonio,Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is
where soldiers who
have been evacuated from Germany
come to be hospitalized in the United States,
especially burn victims. There are some buildings
there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House
is a Hotel where soldiers' families can stay, for
little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in
the Hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses on
base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled most
of the time.
While
Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him
a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much
one of them would cost to build. He
took his check book
out and wrote a check for the full amount right there on the spot. The
soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this
story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed their hearts
to hear it.
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