News you probably missed: Colorado Rockies visit wounded vets at Walter Reed

Phil Rogers covers baseball for the Chicago Tribune, and this snippet (free registration may be required) comes from his Sunday column:

Some socially conscious teams take time to visit veterans at Walter Reed Hospital when they visit the Nationals in Washington. The Rockies were the latest, going Tuesday. The visit was voluntary, but the entire Colorado roster turned out to spend time with wounded soldiers. (Emphasis mine)

"For someone who has never spent a day in the service, to see what they have gone through, you feel so inadequate when they say, 'Thank you,"' Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said. "They have given so much for their country and are so proud of their country. There's a guy with no legs who says it's not bad. He can get a set of legs. He tells you it's the guys with no arms that have the tough deal."

Nice work, fellows.

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I did a Google news search, and discovered that few news outlets bothered to cover the Rockies visit to Walter Reed.

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