Why The Media Blackout of Denzel Washingtons Extraordinary Gift to a Texas Military Hospital?
Denzel Washington and his family were recently visiting the troops at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, a major facility for wounded soldiers who’ve been transported back from Germany. Especially burn victims. Brook has guest houses where soldiers’ families can stay for little or no charge while their son or daughter is undergoing reconstructive surgery. There are quite a few of these on base and they are almost always filled to capacity. Denzel Washington was given a tour of one of these houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build. Then he took out his checkbook out and wrote a check for the full amount of a new guest house – right on the spot. Overseas soldiers were amazed to hear this story and wanted to get the word out to the American public because Washington’s generosity had moved them deeply. But the media wouldn’t oblige them. Apart from a story in the metro section of the local San Antonio paper, the national news media chose to cover up the movie
