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, Madonna, Sean Penn and other Hollywood types make front page news with their anti-everything America and this doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the base newspaper in San Antonio.
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I was watching Harry Connick jr helping down in N.O, and thought what a sound genuine bloke that is, then switched channels to see Sean Penn make a prick of himself. All people are different, some go about things they believe passionatly in very silly ways, but their heart is in the right place, regardless of celebrity status.
If it's a true story then well done Washington.
If it's a true story then well done Washington.
http://www.fisherhouse.org/inTheNews/actor_04_13_SS.pdf
So there you go, confirmed large donation, not exactly for "the full amount", but still very big and much appreciated.
And yes, unfortunately "news" organizations are more about ratings than actually reporting all the goings-on. So they report all the bad things and none of the good things (unless it'd buy them ratings).
So there you go, confirmed large donation, not exactly for "the full amount", but still very big and much appreciated.
And yes, unfortunately "news" organizations are more about ratings than actually reporting all the goings-on. So they report all the bad things and none of the good things (unless it'd buy them ratings).
hmmm...makes him seem cheap now...in his position I would have given the full amount needed.
Although his generous portion could be easily matched if some of those other 'stars' would follow suit. This is where they can really show off to me, (otherwise, 'stars' don't impress me) by stepping up and giving some of that money they earned under the protection of the men and women who stood guard over America so they could earn that cash! Hey, consider it a nice tip, right?
Although his generous portion could be easily matched if some of those other 'stars' would follow suit. This is where they can really show off to me, (otherwise, 'stars' don't impress me) by stepping up and giving some of that money they earned under the protection of the men and women who stood guard over America so they could earn that cash! Hey, consider it a nice tip, right?
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I was just interested in finding out more info on it, since I'm in Austin and hadn't seen anything here on it (or didn't remember seeing anything, at least). Did a few searches, ran across a blog entry that linked to that PDF (on the Fisher House site, so it's gotta be official, right). Someone found that off on Snopes (is there anything you can't find on Snopes these days?).Iceman wrote:Thanks for straightening me out Plebian ... Good find.
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