Fernandina Beach Florida Neighbors Reach Out To Wounded Soldier

'One big neighborhood' aids wounded soldier's family

By Michael Parnell, News-Leader

A U.S. Army soldier from Fernandina Beach faces months of recovery from injuries suffered in Iraq, but he has been buoyed by prayer and support from family, friends and even strangers, his mother said.

"I am better every day knowing that he is getting better every day," Lisa Harter said about son Taylor Harter, 20, injured last month in a bomb blast southeast of Baghdad.

"My son is well taken care of" at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., where she spent two weeks after he was wounded, Harter said. She complimented the Army for its care of her son and his family. "That place is amazing. . . . I don't think I'd want Taylor any other place."

Lisa Harter returned home to attend to her 10-year-old son and her two businesses, but plans to return Feb. 22. Taylor may be moving then from his hospital room to outpatient quarters in a cottage on the Walter Reed grounds.

His mother is comforted from the calls she receives each day from a high school classmate, U.S. Army Col. Bruce Haselden, a Fernandina Beach High graduate who works at Walter Reed. He made contact with Lisa Harter after his sister, who lives here, sent him a newspaper story about the bomb blast that injured Taylor and killed one of his crewmates in their armored vehicle when it rolled over a buried explosive device.
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