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Donations and Support for our Troops: |
"Our Nation's Heroes T-Shirt"
for Sale
We have partnered with a marketing /
fundraising firm to create the T-Shirt pictured below. Both the graphic
design of the shirt and the message it conveys are fitting tributes to Our
Nation’s Heroes.
With
so many of our young men and women deployed “in harms way” around the globe,
helping to support the Walter Reed Army Medical Center is more important now
than ever before. More
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"America Supports You"
By Rudi Williams / American Forces Press Service / WASHINGTON, July xx
, 2005
Out of
concern for the overwhelming number of family members of war-wounded
service members showing up at the hospital’s doorstep needing
financial assistance, the Walter Reed command asked the Walter Reed
Society to help. “So on March 19, 2004, we created the Iraqi Freedom
and Enduring Freedom Family Support Fund,” said retired Army Sgt. Maj.
Daniel J. Bullis.
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Pro Sports figures dig
into own pockets to support troops
By Lisa
Hoffman,
Scripps Howard News Service, July 19, 2005
Then, on
the day of the game, after spending time in the wards of the Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, he changed his mind. Visiting with wounded
U.S. troops, many of them amputees, Guillen found the perspective and
inspiration he needed to shrug off his own minor aches and do his job.
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Walter Reed Society Sponsored Events: |
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Fishing in Therapeutic Waters
story & photos by Carrie Steele
David Cowan, an epidemiologist from Walter Reed, coordinated with the
Walter Reed Society’s Dan Bullis and Deale charter captains Jim
Brincefield and Chad Muse to take the veterans out fishing.
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Announcements: |
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Walter Reed Society member, John R. Pierce, COL, MC
(Retired) and James V. Writer are the authors of a book published by John Wiley and Sons of New York. The
book titled “Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and
Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets” traces the history of
yellow fever and details the critical role of the U.S. Army
Medical Department in its eventual conquest. Pierce and Writer
collaborated previously in writing about the role of Walter Reed
and other members of the Army Medical Department in battling
yellow fever. A Supplement to the journal
Military Medicine was published in
September 2001, titled “Solving the Mystery of Yellow Fever, The
1900 U.S. Army Yellow Fever Board” . A long time member of the
medical staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Pierce is now
Medical Inspector for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Writer
who previously worked at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is
now employed by the Department of Agriculture. (June 2005) |
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