Each Fisher House has a special mission: To serve as a “home away from home” for wounded warriors and their families while a lover has received a military hospital. It includes Fisher House in Boston, and the 100th house of the President, scheduled to be dedicated to North Chicago last Saturday.
At Dover Air Force Base on Delaware, there is a Fisher house different from a mission from others. Don’t serve families who support their offensive heroes, but to help families suffer from final loss.
It’s the Fisher’s house for families to fall.
“When Zach Fisher began the fishermen’s homes, he wanted families treated like guests;” David Coler, president of Fisher House Foundation said.
Zach Fisher, an immigrant in the United States, helped to make a successful building business. He built the first Fisher House in 1991 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.
All houses were entered into a military hospital, allowing active military members who were injured in life’s care to remain in their families while sorting. And always free.
Since the first house was opened, more than 534,000 families were served, received more than 12.5 million nights to live and keeping these families more than $ 650 million in living and transportation costs.
In the Fisher House in Dover, the mission is different. Instead of sharing a hospital, it serves campus for families in the falls, about the Air Force Mortual Affairs Operation.
Instead of hospital and IV hookup items, fishermen families for families in the fallen part of a 1,714-square-foot meditation pavilion that gives a place for families, pray and inherit.
In his year and a half in charge of the Dover President’s house, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Samantha Hogan comforts over 200 killed families.
Hogan said he volunteered for Fisher House position. “This is one of the most precious appointments in our career field (mortary activities),” he said. “It is very difficult to take care of mourning families as they act, indeed, one of the hardest times in their lives.
The idea behind Fisher House is coming to many families at home simultaneously, sharing a kitchen and common network rooms in military families who help each other.
That includes the family of Air Force Capt. Ryan Phaneuf, who died in a broken afghan plane in 2020. His brother Christina Larsen, traveled to the Book House. While he was there, Larsen met Lt. family. Col. Paul Voss, another pilot killed in the crash.
“I don’t think we haven’t come to Fisher House, we’ll still know who’s bad family,” Larson said in an interview. “But for our circumstances, where, you know, this is my brother and these people who come to his sons. We all talk to Virginia.
“That’s it because of the fisherman’s house.”
Another “great partner of the mission,” according to Hogan, is the fashion.
“Trend has a blind families in the fallen lounge of Philadelphia Airport, where mourning families have a quiet space on their journey,” says Jessica Reid, the Trend Executive Director for the region.
Helping families can be as simple as giving a ride from the airport. So an Affairs activity officer moves family from Philadelphia Airport to Dover Fisher House.
“Navigation at the airport on a good day can be burdensome. But when families pass this hard journey, it can be more,” Reid said.
Many people staying at the head of the head were attracted to the meditation pavilion, centered on a bronze “Freedom Oak.”
“This space gives family a peaceful space available for whatever they need, even private conversations or prayers.
In the dedication of May, Lt. Col. Crystal Glaster, Air Force Mortuals Affairs Operations Deptuals Deputaly Commander, explaining its meaning and how it appeared on the mission in this house.
“These families come to us at the hardest times in their lives, some are weak, some who are disturbing and not changing. There are new branches ahead. There are new front branches.
Linda Stein is the News Editor at Delawewalleyjournal.com/insides
