Gearing up for year number 4!!!
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Hoofin' for Heroes was founded to ensure that wounded veterans would never again endure the hardships that veterans of Vietnam and Korea still go through on a daily basis. We want this generation of young warriors to be taken better care of than those who preceded them in war.
This year we have two projects that we are raising funds for: The Wounded Warrior Project seeks to assist those men and women of our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations around the world. The WWP consists of many members who were in these conflicts and know on a first hand basis the trauma these brave men and women have witnessed. Many of the injuries are traumatic amputations, gunshot wounds, burns, and blast injuries that will retire these brave warriors from military Service. Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. In addition we will also donate to the Fisher House Foundation. Because members of the military and their families are stationed worldwide and must often travel great distances for specialized medical care, Fisher House Foundation donates "comfort homes," built on the grounds of major military and VA medical centers. These homes enable family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful times - during the hospitalization for an unexpected illness, disease, or injury. This home away from home is provided free of charge to the families. Please ride with us to benefit those that sacrificed for us.
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THE ULTIMATE IRONY USING SADDAM'S COINS FOR OUR VETERANS - CHECK IT OUT!!!
In the spring of 2003 the US and British Coalition Soldiers in Iraq were called upon to secure the banks and museums in Basra, Iraq from looters. In these banks were over 70,000 pounds of brilliant un-circulated Iraqi coins that were decommissioned by Saddam Hussein at the end of the first Gulf War. For 10 years they lay in bags on the floor of a number of Basra banks. The coins were sold off in London and the proceeds from the sale benefited a Basra orphanage and a British Commonwealth graveyard, both decimated under Saddam.
These coins did a lot of good for the children of that orphanage in Basra, and now they are doing a lot of good for our troops. After changing hands a couple of times, Products for Good (PFG) acquired the entire collection, all 70,000 pounds. PFG has created two patriotic shadowboxes containing the coins with both a two coin, and four coin option. You can also get a branch specific shadow box and there's even a stocking stuffer 1 coin.
The coins are mounted with gloved hands and housed in a commemorative shadowbox. The shadowboxes display the word "freedom" in Arabic with the following definition below it:
Freedom: n 1) The state of being free from constraints. 2) Political Independence. 3) Free will.
The proceeds of their sale go to benefit the families of the fallen and wounded vets.
Own a piece of history HERE
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