Wounded Warrior Project History

When I delivered those backpacks, they just caught on like wildfire, and I got a call three or four days later from a guy at Bethesda and Walter Reed and he said, “Can you get me any more of those?”

And that was really when the project was started. It was meant to be something to honor wounded warriors by giving them these backpacks as just kind of a thank-you gift, and it just turned into so much more because every time we went there, warriors were inspired by stories that I told them about other wounded veterans, and I started seeing that families didn’t have all the information that they needed to access their benefits.