First a bit of the story:

International man of mystery, David Blaine, stopped by Brooke Army Medical Center here Nov. 22 to perform “street magic” for the wounded warriors recovering at the hospital.

Blaine performed three shows at the center – in the Amputee Care Center, the Burn Center and the hospital auditorium – for different groups of patients.

A little further down:

Blaine is often called the “Ice Guy” – after freezing himself in a solid block of ice for three days in 2000. One center patient from New York, Marine Cpl. Merlin German, remembered watching Blaine as he emerged from the ice block in Times Square. Now recovering from burns sustained in the global war on terrorism, German was pleased Blaine took the time to come see the wounded.

“He was very inspiring to me,” German said, adding that Blaine, who invited him and his parents to a show in New York after he recovers, now sees him as a friend.

After his Nov. 22 shows, Blaine said he was so moved by the wounded troops that he returned Nov. 23 and 25 to personally visit with them.

That’s an article from DefenseLink, the web news arm of the United States Department of Defense. Note, it is not from AP, Reuters, PROnline, etc. (I thought that was worth noting.)