Wounded Warrior Project History

I assembled a group of people that I think are the best people in the business to work for us. We raised $5,000 initially, and I went and delivered these Wounded Warrior Backpacks to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and Bethesda Naval [Hospital in Bethesda, Md.], and the backpacks were filled with things like underwear and socks and calling cards and a CD player, a T-shirt and a pair of shorts — the things that I wanted to have when I was evacuated. My family actually had to meet me at Dover, Del., and bring me some of that stuff — my toothbrush and my razor and all of those kind of things — when I was flown back to the States. And I knew things in the military didn’t change very quickly, and I knew that these guys would be going through the same type of stuff.