Edited sentence: A true American and friend to all in uniform.BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base but as you can imagine, they are almost completely filled most of the time.Further to the paragraph above: THE FOLLOWING NEEDS WIDE DISTRIBUTION.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.Subject: Fw: 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.The Fisher House is a hotel where soldiers' families can stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the hospital.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 crap and this doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper.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.They have buildings there called Fisher Houses.This is where soldiers that have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the States, especially burn victims.While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses.except the base newspaper in San Antonio