If you long for an antidote to the isolated, self-centered, smartphone culture of AI America, it was on display at the ribbon cutting for the 100th Fisher House last week.
Hundreds of people gathered, not to take selfies or to swap memes, but to celebrate service to others.
So, what is the Fisher House?
Military families often find out the hard way. They get word that a son has been injured in combat, or a wife has been diagnosed with cancer. They need care at a military or VA hospital that’s far from where they live, treatment that will take days or weeks – or maybe even longer.
The first question they ask? “Where will I stay?”
One of the best answers they can get, as more than 530,000 militarY families already have, is “Well, there is a Fisher House…”
They call themselves a “home a