So, a friend of mine is training for the Tough Mudder race to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project and he asked if I would share a link and/or a blurb about it for him. Of course, I agreed. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought he needed more than just a blurb, so I asked if he wouldn’t mind having a full post.
We have a lot of fun talking about the darker things here. The men and women who are helped by this charity have seen horrors we can’t even begin to imagine. And they stared them right in the face, willingly, so that we can do what we do every day.
Please take a few seconds to read Collin’s story, then click the hell out of the links below.
I became aware of the Wounded Warrior Project shortly after I made the transition from the Marine Corps back to civilian life back in 2003. As it happened, I was one of the lucky ones in that was able to return home with no physical damage and my mind relatively unaffected. I also had a family to return to and a reasonably optimistic employment outlook.
This is unfortunately not the case for MANY of our returning servicemen and women. As of August 1st 2013 there have been over 50,000 service members wounded or killed in the military conflicts over the last 10 years. While I cannot speak from personal experience I have a number of close friends that chose to stay on and keep fighting after I was discharged and were subsequently terribly injured, both physically and mentally, and found that re-integrating back into “normal” society to be the challenge of their lives.
This is where the Wounded Warrior Project comes in. The mission of this excellent organization is: To honor and empower Wounded Warriors. The execution of this mission involves a number of programs assisting the more than 35,000 members and almost 5,000 family members. These programs include: Combat Stress and Recovery, Family Support, Peer Mentoring, Adaptive Sporting Events, & Job Training and Placement assistance just to name a few.
As with everything, these programs cost money to maintain and no injured veteran ever pays any dues or fees– they paid their dues on the battlefield. So to continue the assistance that WWP provides takes donations from people just like you that have an appreciation for our nation’s military and for what they have sacrificed for our freedom.
I urge you to help me raise as much money as I can to give to this organization that is doing some real good for all of our Wounded Warriors and their families. Please go to the link below and give all that you can to help those men and women that have literally given their blood for us.
Also, I encourage everyone to visit www.woundedwarriorproject.org to see everything they are doing and what else YOU can do to help them. Thank you.
Semper Fi,
Collin White
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