WASHINGTON, DC – The National Park Service will provide enhanced programs and services for injured military members through a partnership established today with Wounded Warrior Project.

In a ceremony held at the Lincoln Memorial, National Park Service Director Mary A. Bomar and Wounded Warrior Project Executive Director and Founder John Melia signed an agreement to develop opportunities to help severely injured military members mend physically, mentally, and spiritually in parks. 

Tara Dugan Kusumoto - U.S. Paralympic Team September 16, 2008

Source: paralympics.teamusa.org

American swimmer Melissa Stockwell (Colorado Springs, Colo./ Minneapolis, Minn.) has been selected by the U.S. delegation as flag bearer for the closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Stockwell, who lost her left leg to a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq, is the first veteran injured in Iraq to compete on the U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team.

Jacksonville, FL (September 9, 2008) – As part of BGC’s fourth annual Charity Day taking place on Thursday, September 11, 2008,  Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), along with ten other charities, will receive donations and recognition from a host of celebrities. BGC was formed by Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial firm which suffered the loss of over 600 employees on 9/11, as it rebuilt following the attacks. On the anniversary of this tragedy, BGC donates all the days’ trading proceeds to selected charities around the world.

The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
By RANDY GRIFFITH

Despite blindness and brain damage from enemy mortar fire in Iraq, Sgt. Jeremy Feldbusch has rallied to become a leading advocate for wounded soldiers.

But some days, his mother said, the Wounded Warrior Project’s co-founder still needs help that will be available in a new state-of-the-art treatment center for severely injured soldiers to be located in Upper Yoder Township…

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Take Pride is donating  a minimum of $5 from the sale of each Stronger Shirt sold to the Wounded Warrior Project.  T-shirts inspired bt the lives and actions of real men and women serving in our nation's military.

On April 13, 2004, Melissa Stockwell lost virtually her entire left leg to an Iraqi roadside bomb attack. She was only 23 and the first female US soldier amputee of the war.  No one would have blamed her if she was angry and lashed out at everyone in sight: the President, Iraqis, two-legged American civilians who've largely sacrificed nothing during the wars, at the unfairness of life itself.