Unsung heros at home

[nvalleyvee]

Subject: Brooks Army Medical Center

Don't know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troups at Brook Army Medical Center, in San Antonio,Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers that have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the States, especially burn victims. They have 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 completely 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.

The question I have is why does Alec Baldwin, Modonna, Sean Penn and other Hollywood types make front page news with their anti-everything America crap and this doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the base newspaper in San Antonio ?

[turbonium]

That's a nice story - yes, it should have had equal airtime, but like you said, genuine charity is not done for publicity points.

[nvalleyvee]

flopstock wrote: Because true humanitarians don't do it for the glory, so he probably didn't have his press agents announce it to the world.

And because journalists can't be bothered to look further then their nose for news.


I agree - a true humanitarian who cares about our troups - an unsung hero. I'm glad forumgarden knows.

[Wolverine]

a friend sent me an e-mail about that earlier today.