Center for the Intrepid Opens

The Center for the Intrepid, a four-story, 65,000 square-foot facility adjacent to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, and two new Fisher Houses were officially opened Jan. 29. Bill White, president of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, said the opening “demonstrates forever the commitment of the American community to honor those who serve the twin pillars of freedom and democracy without regard to politics, personality or personal gain.” The $50 million physical rehabilitation center was built by the contributions of 600,000 Americans, including “kids who gave pennies … and mothers and fathers who just wanted to say thank you," said Arnold Fisher, Chairman of the Board for the Intrepid Museum Foundation. The center will provide traumatic amputee patients, burn patients requiring advanced rehabilitation and those requiring limb salvage efforts with techniques and training in one location to help them regain their ability to live and work productively.