Saturday, September 10, 2005

Washington Caught Being Good


My Cousin Loren advises that Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brooke 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 checkbook 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.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fact check:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/denzel.asp

P.S. Your comments don't seem to work properly from Firefox on Linux. I don't have Windows and IE so I don't know if it's the same from there.

-Andy

Anonymous said...

As the disclaimer states clearly at the top of the blog,
"Only half the lies are true."