My blog is about my ancestors who answered the call when
asked by our Country. They went off to
war, they did their duty, not all of them came home. Today men and women are answering that same
call to defend our Country. Unlike the
Civil War, a large proportion of these men and women are coming home physically
and mentally broken. I said broken
because that is what happens to soldiers in a war; there is no PC way of
describing it. Their lives have been unalterably
changed but they won’t give up. The Wounded
Warrior Project’s goal is to help wounded veterans rebuild their lives. Their mission statement says it all
“To foster the most successful,
well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation's history.”
The WWP have a number of different ways to donate. I chose to give 19 dollars a month on my
debit card. That is a cup of coffee
everyday on the way to work. So now
every morning, I bring coffee from home.
That is the least I can do considering what these men and women have
done for us.
President Abraham Lincoln ended his second Inaugural Address
with: ““With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we
are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds,
to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his
orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with all nations.”
President Lincoln’s words are just as meaningful today as
they were Two Hundred and Forty-Eight years ago.
I am not affiliated with or
receive any type of financial remuneration from the Wounded Warrior
Project.
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