Posted on 06/22/2005 9:47:19 AM PDT by Hand em their arse
Just Great:
THIS NEEDS WIDE DISTRIBUTION!
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 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!
100% agreed!!!
I don't know but there is some question if this is an urban legend. Is this report accurate? I've seen other reports of him that proved not to be true.
bump.
Old story and un-verified.
More information is available from snopes.com, it's here:
I heard it mentioned on Fox News so I lean toward it being true.
Hi everyone, Dan told me a great story he heard and I wanted to share it with the rest of you. Pleaaase spread the word! Danzel Washington was visiting BAMC (Brookes Army Medical Center, in San Antonio) the other day. This is where soldiers that have been evac'd from Germany come to be hospitalized in the States. They have buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a hotel that soldier's families can stay at, 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 to the brim 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 got his check book out and wrote a check out 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. I hope you will spread this story! |
Oh Jeez, really?? I didn't know that... sucks if that's the case...
"The truth isn't quite what you've indicated, although Mr. Washington does deserve a lot of credit for what he's done."
"More information is available from snopes.com, it's here:"
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/denzel.asp
Mod, if this is the case, please remove thread.... Thanks Sky
never even heard of the site, so thanks for the info...
Ok.
Yeah, see the snopes stuff.
It was a gracious move on his part. And I don't entirely know his politics, but Denzel has had disagreements with Hollywood libs. He may not be one of the typical Hwood libs, or even truly a lib at all.
Not at all... :) and will do, thanks!
This must keep getting regurgitated for some bizarre reason.
Must be Denzel's Mama "represent'n".
Agreed!
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