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Seapuppy
06-11-2005, 07:03 PM
Got this in an email with pic's..unfortunately I can't figure out how to post the pic's here.......but this just warms my heart to hear this...



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. A true American and friend to all in uniform!


:argh arr

Randygh
06-11-2005, 08:21 PM
SP--Thanks for sharing. I copied and forwarded to family and friends. Denzel Washington deserves a big thank you.

Go Aweigh2452
06-11-2005, 09:32 PM
Actually this is part true and part not so true. He did not purchase a house. He wrote a check and made a donation, not large enough to purchase a house however...

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

Seapuppy
06-12-2005, 06:58 AM
either way...you don't hear of any of the other stars doing something remotely like this......but like I said...got an email with this and thought it was nice..... :argh arrr