The Rumor
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.
The Truth
Denzel Washington did make a visit
to the Brooke (not Brookes) Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, Texas,
in December, 2004. Among other things, he participated in a ceremony awarding
Purple Hearts to three soldiers and visited several others.
He also toured the Fisher House facilities there, was impressed with what they
were doing, and did indicate a desire to support it. An rumor got started that
he dramatically pulled out his checkbook on the spot and wrote a check for the
cost of building an entire house, which was not true. Fisher House says the
confusion may have come when an announcement was made later in that a new
$1-million facility was going to be built. It was at the same time as a
mention that Denzel Washington had pledged a donation to Fisher House.
Four months later, however, he came through "in a big way", according to the
folks at Fisher House.
They won't disclose the amount of his gift, but Fisher House spokesman James
Weiskopf says it's one of the largest in the organization's history and that
Denzel Washington has agreed to serve on the Fisher House board of trustees.
Fisher House is a program that provides special housing at each of the Army's
major medical centers for the families of soldiers who are receiving medical
treatment, often from being wounded on duty.
Fisher house is either a facility or a group of facilities where family
members can stay for no cost or reduced cost, which helps ease the burden of
possibly having made a long and expensive trip to be by the beside of a family
member and to make it possible for even low income
families to be able to stay close by.
He still is
A True American.
Thanks to
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/denzel-brooke.htm



