support from Denzel

briannell · Post by **briannell** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:08 pm

This needs as wide a distribution as we can create.

Subject: Denzel Washington
Subject: Brooks Army Medical Center

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.

GOKATS · Post by **GOKATS** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:25 pm

He's a class act! Can't say the same for the others you mentioned.

grizbeer · Post by **grizbeer** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:41 pm

I like Denzel Washington and this story has some truth to it, but it is an urban legend - not that he didn't do some good things here, but the story as told is not true.

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

briannell · Post by **briannell** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:50 pm

GB - that was emailed to us by a fellow soldier, it lifted them up is Mosul. I should have researched it before posting.

-rebecca

Post by **kmax** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:01 pm

grizbeer wrote:I like Denzel Washington and this story has some truth to it, but it is an urban legend - not that he didn't do some good things here, but the story as told is not true.

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

Thanks grizbeer, was just about to post the same when I saw yours.

iaafan · Post by **iaafan** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:37 pm

I have no problem with anyone, including actors, being activists. It’s justified and in many cases there’s more to what they are doing than meets the eye. As for donations such as Washington’s, most people affiliated with the entertainment industry are large donors to multiple causes.

http://www.fbresearch.org/animal-activism/baldwin.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8146742/

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20050118.html