Walter Reed Hospital welcomes combat veteran visitors

Welcome, Military Visitors
Combat veterans from capital in town
Wednesday, May. 23, 2012
Recovering injured combat veterans from Washington area military medical centers arrive today for a six-night visit including participation in several events wrapping up Military Appreciation Days and the Memorial Day weekend.

An estimated 57 visitors will be the largest number thus far on the visits arranged by Scents for Soldiers. “I’m pretty confident we’ll have a bus full – 57 [service veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan] – this time,” says Christina Shealy, founder of Scents for Soldiers. “The most we’ve done on the bus trips is 37.” This is the sixth bus trip, and Scents also has brought injured service people here in small groups.

The visitors this weekend include Marines for the first time, a dozen from the former National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., combined in 2011 with the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to form the new tri-service Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Other Scents patients are from Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Virginia. The latter includes Army, Navy and Air Force medical personnel.
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