To date over 18,000 men and women have been wounded in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of these troops are ultimately returned to duty. But some suffer injuries so severe that they require extensive medical care and years of treatment and rehabilitation. Their future quality of life, their ability to care for themselves and provide for their families, and their very survival depends on the treatment and rehabilitation, they receive following their injuries.
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is constructing a world-class state-of-the-art advanced training skills facility at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. The center will serve military personnel who have been catastrophically disabled in military operations as well as military personnel and veterans severely injured in the normal performance of their duties.
The center will encompass a $35 million 60,000 square foot structure, providing ample space and facilities for the rehabilitation needs of the patients and their families. It will include top of the line indoor and outdoor facilities.
As of April 17, 2006, The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund successfully reached its goal of $35 Million dollars. Although sufficient funding has been received for the construction costs, the Fund is accepting donations to provide additional services to the patients who will be treated in the Center and their families. These services may include facilities for patients' children, additional medical equipment and supplies, medical research to improve the care of patients, or other areas relating to the Center's activities including the patients and their families.
One hundred percent of contributions will continue to go to these services, with nothing taken out for the Fund's administrative costs.
For more information see http://www.fallenheroesfund.org/fallenheroes/index.php.