SOURCES:
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- American Red Cross
PROCESS:
Lots of misinformation online, but that's where our Verify team steps in to get you the facts.
It's the season of giving and this circulating advice on social media encourages you to send Christmas cards to a "recovering soldier" at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, but not so fast.
Verify researchers checked out that Georgia Ave address being shared, it's the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center location that closed in 2011 before moving to it's current location in Bethesda on Wisconsin Avenue.
Mailing a holiday card to the D.C. address will be returned to sender.
The official Facebook page for the Walter Reed National Military Center said you can send cards through the American Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes program to their Fairfax Virginia address:
American Red Cross in the National Capital Region
8550 Arlington Blvd
Fairfax, VA 22031
The deadline for sending service members Christmas cards is November 28.
So spread holiday cheer but not false information we verified viral information about sending Christmas cards to "a recovering soldier" at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center is not correct.
