What have you sacrificed for the war?
This is the least our veterans deserve:
The Center for the Intrepid, a 60,000-square-foot state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility for severely injured service members, will be dedicated at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Jan. 29. At the same time, officials will dedicate two new 21-room Fisher Houses built next door to the center.
So why did it have to be built from donations?
The facility was designed and built by the nonprofit Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. In April 2006, within nine months after the project was announced, the fund had reached its goal of raising $35 million for construction. The center now will be turned over to the Army Medical Command for operation.
My mother told me about standing in line at the PX behind a young soldier in a wheel chair with amputated legs and extensive scar tissue. I suspect he doesn’t want us to feel sorry for him but his life will never be the same.
If these men and women are willing to sacrifice their limbs, their health, their future, why can’t we suffer the pain of even forgoing tax breaks to pay for such facilities? Talk about not supporting our troops.
Filed under: Brook Army Medical Center, Center for the Intrepid, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Verterans, troop support
