>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:45:25 -0500
>
>I hope all is well with everyone as we approach the Holiday Season. I
>am writing you to tell you about a charitable cause that I truly
>believe in. For the past year I have been supervising science student
>who come to Washington DC to intern and gain professional experience in
>their fields of studies. Over the past year I have had at least a
>dozen students who have interned at both the VA Medical Center and
>Walter Reed Medical Center.
>They have been working with injured soldiers nursing them back to
>health. I have had students working in the mental health unit, medical
>research, cardiac rehab, and physical therapy. These hospitals are so
>overstressed with the aging veterans from past wars and peace times and
>soldiers returning with major injuries having survived Explosive
>Devices (IEDs).
>Because of the land mines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs),
>there are many amputees in wheelchairs that must be pushed from
>place-to-place within the hospital and grounds, and from their quarters
>to the various clinics. When wounds are from mines and IEDs, they
>include multiple wounds to all parts of the body involving all clinics from
A to Z.
>The wounded, being treated at the hospital, include all branches of the
>Armed Forces (Army, Marines, Sailors, Air Force and Coast Guard, both
>men and women). The Family Assistance Center provides assistance to the
>wounded during their stay at the hospital and the family member
>(normally spouse or mother of the wounded individual).
>Because of the expedient method to get them from the battlefield to
>WRAMC, the wounded arrive with nothing. Their personal items are in
>Iraq or Afghanistan to be shipped to them later. Therefore, the
>wounded men and women need many critical items to sustain them. Please
>help make their recovery effort by contributing the items, the address
>to mail the items to (or drop off items) is:
>WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER
>MEDICAL FAMILY ASSISTANCE CENTER
>BUILDING 2, 3RD FLOOR, ROOM 3E01
>6900 GEORGIA AVENUE, N.W.
>WAHSINGTON, D.C. 2001
>
>Link: http://wramc.army.mil/Soldiers/MedFac1/index2.htm
>
>WISH LIST FOLLOWS (Please, no used items or money.):
1. Prepackaged candy, cookies, and crackers (no homemade) (See NOTE Below)
2. Weight lifting gloves (for wheelchair patients - and there are many of
them)
3. Pillows stuffed with polystyrene beads (very soft)
4. Postage Stamps
5. Pre-Paid Phone Cards
6. Flannel Pajamas
7. Shoes (size 9-12)
8. Sweatshirts / Jackets (zipped & hooded)
9. Break-away trousers (snaps or zips along legs)
10. Coats & Jackets (cold weather)
11. Gloves (cold weather)
12. Scarves (cold weather)
13. Backpacks (all black with single strap across the chest)
14. Carry-on size luggage (with wheels if possible)
15. Electric Razors
16. Umbrellas
17. Credit Cards, Prepaid (Gas, Gift cards & Food for Giant & Safeway
nearby)
18. Portable DVD Players
19. DVDs -Action to Comedy (use common sense as far as content and subject)
20. iPODs (and itunes cards)
21. The wounded are normally very young and a nice stuffed animal cheers
them up.
>NOTE: The Commissary Manager at the Quantico Marine Base provides us
>with many goodies through the Vendors. All we have to do is deliver
>them to the Family Assistance Center.
>
>*******************************************************
>
>Walter Reed Medical Family Assistance Center (MEDFAC) at
>(202) 782-2071 or toll free 1-866-546-1310, BLDG. 2, Third Floor, Room
>3E01.
>
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