I came to know Brian one warm afternoon as we sat by a river and rested while fishing. We talked quietly and laughed and I saw his strength and grace and connection to God. He was, to me, an amazing man. I’ve stayed connected to Healing Waters because of Brian and men like him. He’s now gone from this world, and it breaks my heart. See you on the other side, my friend. “There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where Most High dwells.”

Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing started over ten years ago when Ed Nicholson had a simple idea: "Hey, let's take some vets fishing". So some folks from the DC area got together in early 2005. We started by helping a few wounded vets from Walter Reed go pond fishing at the Old Soldiers Home in downtown Washington. It was a brutally hot early summer day, and nobody caught a thing. Except the idea we'd like to try again. And so we did. Today, there are well over two hundred P