Kids Walk For Wounded Warriors
Last year our grandmother Suzanne started a new yearly tradition in honor of our Papa Jack. Papa Jack cares a lot about people. He is the type of man that thinks about other people before himself. Each one of Papa's children have kids of their own now. Suzanne gives each one of these families, specifically the grandchildren, $100 to spend on a charity that helps people in need. And each year, Ailey, Mia and I try to build on that donation in order to make n even bigger donation to the charity we choose.
This year we have chosen The Wounded Warrior Project as our charity. We feel that this charity is a good one to support right now since there are such a large number of wounded veterans returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. And for us, our military history goes way back. We have an uncle who is currently serving actively in Germany with the Navy. Our father Eric, our Papa Leo, and our Great Uncle Kevin are all former Marines. We have two great grandfathers, 4 great uncles, and one great aunt who served in the Army, Navy or AirCorps during World War II and we have a cousin who served in the Army during Vietnam. These family member's military service helped us to understand even more about the sacrifices that all veterans make and has made this cause very important to us. So we now would like to honor as well as lend a hand to the wounded veterans of today. In the end, choosing The Wounded Warrior Project as our charity was an easy decision.
Our Plan - On December 11th at 8:30 sharp we will be walking approximately 2 miles to raise money for this charity. We will donate the $100 from our grandmother Suzanne, but will also donate all the money donated to our walk to this charity as well.
We would like to invite both kids and adults to this event. It will take place at the Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Exeter. We particularly want to invite our friends from school to join our fundraising team so that we can raise as much as possible for this event as a team. We will be walking whether there is sun, rain, sleet, or snow in honor of our wounded warriors.
Listed below is some basic information about what Wounded Warriors is all about.
MISSION -
To honor and empower wounded warriors.
VISION - To foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded warriors in this nation's history.
CORE VALUES - Fun Integrity Loyalty Innovation Service
PURPOSE - To raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members.
To help injured service members aid and assist each other.
To provide unique, direct programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members.
Read more: http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/content/view/412/875/#ixzz15P3aT4Xs
See video that sums up The Wounded Warrior Project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeg389PN3_U
We hope you will come walk with us and help us honor our Papa Jack as well as help us honor all the Veterans of this country.
Sign Up for our walk on Dec. 11th - Click Here!
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