Fisher House at the Alvin C. York Center

Breaking News:  More details to follow on this one as my source fills me in.

It seems that the Veterans of Tennessee are stepping up to the plate on an important project:  A New Fisher House that will help Veterans of All Wars and from across the Nation. 

The Daily News Journal explains how it came to be: Fisher House - Murfreesboro Beginnings

To give directly to the Fisher House in Middle Tennessee (

Murfreesboro

), select that option under Program Area here.  While the

Mission

is what’s important, you can tell them in comments that you found the method to get there on our page!

More information to come on how this project is progressing.

Here's what I know so far:

In order to get this project off the ground, $2.1 Million must be donated.

The Chairman of the Board to raise this money has done a phenomenal job so far in raising money, particularly since our Corporations have failed to demonstrate support.  My source tells me that nearly all donations so far have come from Individuals and near exclusively Veterans. 

Veterans continue to take care of their own because others just won't.

Evidently support for this Fisher House was brought up at the VFW State Convention last weekend (19-21 June 2008), endorsed by the State Leadership and there will be a strong push from all posts in the State.  It's less known to me the push within the American Legion Leadership but my source tells me it also exists there.

While this effort is being strongly supported by Middle Tennessee VFW and American Legion Posts, this new Fisher House will be of much greater benefit to the Veterans of Alabama, East Tennessee, West Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and even California.

Why would it benefit those further away rather than locally?  Well, it seems that the VA Hospital in Nashville is inside the Vanderbilt Medical Center, for better or worse.  The upside to this is that Our Veterans are often cared for by some of the top Medical Professionals in the Nation and that the Nashville VA Hospital has become THE place for heart patients.  Evidently Our Veterans travel from across the Nation to be treated there and this new Fisher House will be the place that they can stay during that treatment.

More details to be posted as they become available but if you can find a way to donate to this cause, please select this Fisher House, the Middle Tennessee Fisher House at the Alvin C York Medical Center to donate.  Again:

To give directly to the Fisher House in Middle Tennessee (

Murfreesboro

), select that option under Program Area here.  While the

Mission

is what’s important, you can tell them in comments that you found the method to get there on our page!

More information to come on how this project is progressing.