Listen up all you “I support the troops but I am against everything they stand for” types.

THIS is how you support the toops. From an email I got fom my Dad:

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.

**UPDATE**

Robbie @ Urban Grounds originally reported this story here – he also corrects the version of events regarding the donation:

Denzel did visit Brook Army Medical Center, but he did not break out his check book at that time. He did go back quite some time later and did make a sizeable (but amount undisclosed) donation to the fisher house.

Regardless of when the donation came, it is an excellent story of someone putting their money where their mouth is instead of just paying lip service for political purposes.