az643dp
"The Tugboat"
Good Move By The Skins!
Redskins visit wounded at Army hospital
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Americans hurt in the war in Iraq were visited Thursday by members of the Washington Redskins.
Four team members dropped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center to cheer up 13 Army personnel injured or wounded in Iraq. Most are recovering from gunshot or shrapnel wounds.
"It's kind of motivating in a way that these guys do what they do so we can be free to live and play football,'' said Alex Sulfsted, an offensive lineman.
"Some of these guys are younger than me, and that's something that really stays with you,'' said fullback Rock Cartwright. "They are fighting for this country and you've really got to appreciate everything they do.''
Offensive lineman Tre Johnson and kicker John Hall joined their teammates for the visit, handing out team pictures, caps and T-shirts to the troops and posing for photographs with them.
Walter Reed is currently treating about 40 men and women who have returned from Kuwait and Iraq. They include Pfc. Jessica Lynch, the former prisoner of war rescued by special forces from an Iraqi hospital.
Lynch, who turns 20 on April 26, was the first of six missing members of the Army's 507th Maintenance Support Company to be found alive following the ambush of her unit in southern Iraq. She is recovering from a head wound, a spinal injury and fractures to her right arm, both legs and her right foot and ankle.
Lynch was not one of the patients seeing visitors Thursday. She has been kept in relative seclusion since arriving at Walter Reed on Saturday.
This is not the first time Redskins have spent time with wounded military personnel. Five players visited with patients injured in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon in September, 2001.
Wounded troops at Walter Reed and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., were also to receive visits from members of the Baltimore Ravens and some of the team's cheerleaders.
Redskins visit wounded at Army hospital
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Americans hurt in the war in Iraq were visited Thursday by members of the Washington Redskins.
Four team members dropped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center to cheer up 13 Army personnel injured or wounded in Iraq. Most are recovering from gunshot or shrapnel wounds.
"It's kind of motivating in a way that these guys do what they do so we can be free to live and play football,'' said Alex Sulfsted, an offensive lineman.
"Some of these guys are younger than me, and that's something that really stays with you,'' said fullback Rock Cartwright. "They are fighting for this country and you've really got to appreciate everything they do.''
Offensive lineman Tre Johnson and kicker John Hall joined their teammates for the visit, handing out team pictures, caps and T-shirts to the troops and posing for photographs with them.
Walter Reed is currently treating about 40 men and women who have returned from Kuwait and Iraq. They include Pfc. Jessica Lynch, the former prisoner of war rescued by special forces from an Iraqi hospital.
Lynch, who turns 20 on April 26, was the first of six missing members of the Army's 507th Maintenance Support Company to be found alive following the ambush of her unit in southern Iraq. She is recovering from a head wound, a spinal injury and fractures to her right arm, both legs and her right foot and ankle.
Lynch was not one of the patients seeing visitors Thursday. She has been kept in relative seclusion since arriving at Walter Reed on Saturday.
This is not the first time Redskins have spent time with wounded military personnel. Five players visited with patients injured in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon in September, 2001.
Wounded troops at Walter Reed and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., were also to receive visits from members of the Baltimore Ravens and some of the team's cheerleaders.
