Celebrity Hero.

[Bungie]

The Media (Accidently?) Missed this one!!!!

Don't know whether you heard about this but 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 who have been evacuated from

Germany come to be hospitalized in the United States, especially burn victims There are some 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 on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost 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 cheque book out and wrote a cheque 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 is - why do:

Britney Spears

Madonna

Tom Cruise and

other Hollywood fluff

make front page news with their ridiculous antics and Denzel Washington's charity doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the local newspaper in San Antonio .

 

[Fred W]

I always suspected that Denzel was an upright kind a guy. Of course, since we don't actually know him it is hard to say with certainty, but his actions sure seem to confirm that suspicion.

Thanks for passing it along.

 

[vol210]

Damn dude, that's an old one. Partly true too.

 

[Fred W]

Aw crap... I feel so violated.

Snopes

 

[Bungie]

Kaitsdad just referred me to a snopes.com article on this story.

Its 'mostly true'. He did make a sizeable donation after the fact, but did not cut a cheque in the manner described.

Still, Denzel did cut a cheque to them out of his wallet, not his fans donations. Kudo's.