I’ve mentioned the wonderful Project Valour-IT several times over the last year. Chuck Ziegenfuss, the wounded Army captain who helped found the program, has a request:

I am begging you to please post about an organization called Salute America’s Heroes. They are donating $500 to every wounded Soldier, Sailor, Airmen or Marine who registers with them in the next few days. I don’t know when the end date is on this, but they did extend it beyond the date listed on their web site. This has been approved by and coordinated through the Department of Defense office of General Counsel Standards of Conduct office.

I’m simply trying to get the word out about this project. Please help me by writing something about it in your blog, and telling any wounded veterans that you know about this.

Veterans can register for the award here.

Please spread the word.

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Update from Chuck:

I called the Wounded Warrior Program to ask them how wounded soldiers would go about getting the authorization code, and was told that the Coalition to salute America’s Heroes gave them a list of authorization codes and people to call. Apparently, it works like this:

Coalition to salute America’s Heroes somehow selects who they want to donate to DS3/WW2 is given the list of names to contact with authorization codes

Soldiers get contacted by DS3/WW2, given their authorization #, and asked to register.

I’m not sure how many people the Coalition to salute America’s heroes have or are going to give this to, or how they generated the list of names, etc.

I apologizing for jumping the gun without doing the research (heck, I was pretty psyched about getting $500 smackers right before Christmas, and wanted to share the wealth/spread the news.) I hope I didn’t do more harm than good.

Thanks,
Chuck