Fort Carson honors fallen hero with medical clinic
Raquel Enero
Monday, July 30, 2012, 4:23:05 PM
The medical center at
Fort Carson is a great healthcare option for military families on base, but it now also serves as a memorial to one of the base's fallen heroes, the Omaha World-Herald reports.
The Pfc. Eric P. Woods Soldier Family Care Center on Fort Carson is named in honor of Woods, an Army medic from Omaha, Nebraska, who died trying to save the life of a fellow soldier during a 2005 bomb blast in Iraq. Fort Carson held a naming ceremony for the medical center recently, honoring Woods and his family, the news outlet reports.
Woods' father said that his medic son had called home just hours before the fatal accident, telling his family that he had refused an offer to move off the front lines of the battlefield, The Associated Press reports.
Woods was assigned to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, which was based at Fort Carson at the time, and was helping a Texas soldier in his unit at the time of the roadside bomb.
The medical center re-naming is not the first time Woods has been honored. His 7-year-old son started one of the first public gardens in Omaha in 2009. Named "Eric's Garden" in honor of his father, the child said he did it to help people like he knew his dad did.
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