News for the Walter Reed Society, Inc.
 

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
 
"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.   Article
 
  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.   Article
 

 

Walter Reed Society Sponsored Events:
 
  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.  Article



 

Announcements:
 
“Yellow Jack” published!
Picture: Yellow Jack Book
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)