Denzel Washington Visits Troops

Thanks to our wayward starlets, there’s always enough bad and/or stupid celebrity news out there, so it’s nice to get word on a good story to help restore faith in the law of averages. To wit, Denzel Washington and his family recently visited
troops at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas
. This is where wounded soldiers who
have been moved from Germany come to be hospitalized and rehabilitated in the
United States — especially burn victims.

Ronald McDonald Houses,
Fisher Houses are a charitable hotel “chain” (there are several in Washington D.C. as well, near Walter Reed) where soldiers’ families can stay, for little or no
charge, while their loved one is staying on base and/or receiving treatment
. While Washington was visiting BAMC, his hosts gave
him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses, which you can imagine stay filled most of the time. Rumor has it that he asked how much it would
cost to build one of them, took out his checkbook and scratched a check for the full amount
on the spot. More pictures to follow later this week…