Douglas Dear of the Rose River Farm (Syria, Va.) emailed me this story, which I read with great interest and felt it would be worth passing along.

The Washington Post writes about 60 fly fishermen and hundreds of onlookers who gathered at Rose River Farm to raise money for Project Healing Waters, a budding private nonprofit that gives injured veterans a crack at fly-fishing.

"It's not, 'Take a vet fishing,' " said retired Navy Capt. Ed Nicholson, the founder. "We're teaching skills that are good emotional and physical therapy."

Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing is dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active duty military personnel and veterans through fly fishing and fly tying education and outings.