Former wounded warrior is spending his retirement volunteering at Walter Reed

Steve Peth volunteering in the Military Advanced Training Center and working with an amputee.
(Image credit: Courtesy of the Red Cross)

As more and more wounded service members came home from Iraq and Afghanistan in 2006, Steve Peth knew he had to do something to help.

A Vietnam veteran, the newly retired Peth had the time to give back. Able to drive in from his home near Quantico, he became a Red Cross volunteer at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. — and when the hospital moved to Bethesda, Maryland, becoming the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he followed. In the years since, he's formed tight bonds with patients in the Department of Rehabilitation's amputee program. "Anything you can do for them is really appreciated, and that's really amazing," Peth, 72, told The Week. "That's what motivates me."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.