The rambunctious Wounded Warrior Project embraces multichannel strategies to fund its mission to transition America’s youngest disabled vets back into civilian life.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

But what about this latest group of young veterans, the ones who are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan — this MySpace generation of warriors?

During previous wars, loved ones got news from the front via impassioned radio reports or grainy newsreels watched over dinner weeks or months after they were taped. In early May, an American soldier in Afghanistan inadvertently called home on his cell phone in the middle of a battle. His family and the American public — thanks to the Internet — listened in horror for three long minutes to muffled curses and commands, the heavy shuffling of boots, a series of dull thuds and pops, and, finally, the chilling shout, “Incoming RPG (rocket-propelled grenade)!”