Friends and co-workers of the family of a Fayetteville soldier severely injured in Iraq will host a benefit concert today from 3 to 9 p. m. at Parsons Rodeo Grounds in Springdale to help meet some of the family’s financial burdens.
The concer t will feature music from the Boston Mountain Playboys, Cousin Eddie, Joe Giles and the Homewreckers, Effron White and more.
Pfc. Adam Watkins, 21, was seriously injured May 21 when the Army Stryker vehicle he was driving ran over an improvised explosive device.
Watkins suffered secondand third-degree burns to his arms, back, head and buttocks as well as some second-degree burns to his face. He also sustained a compound fracture of both tibia bones in his lower leg and broken bones in one foot.
Adam has been at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio for more than two months.
His father, Phil Watkins, said he hopes Adam will be out of the hospital by the end of August.
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Concert to benefit recovery of injured Fayetteville soldier
BY SUSANNAH PATTON, Northwest Arkansas Times
Friends and co-workers of the family of a Fayetteville soldier severely injured in Iraq will host a benefit concert today from 3 to 9 p. m. at Parsons Rodeo Grounds in Springdale to help meet some of the family’s financial burdens.
The concer t will feature music from the Boston Mountain Playboys, Cousin Eddie, Joe Giles and the Homewreckers, Effron White and more.
Pfc. Adam Watkins, 21, was seriously injured May 21 when the Army Stryker vehicle he was driving ran over an improvised explosive device.
