Wounded Warrior Project

This weekend, the Wounded Warrior bike ride came to our town. www.woundedwarriorproject.org      Mayoral staff member Mr Carr, Naval Academy cycling team, and Capital Bicycle helped support the ride. During the ride, I was impressed with the turn out of people in our community. They were in the streets, cars, or driveways and either waving American flags, applauding, or showing their children what the project was about. In the Naval Academy, despite reservations about having wounded stroll thru their grounds, they had an unprecedented turnout. It was a jaw dropping reception. Riding along the waterfront with hundreds of midshipmen cheering was a memory I will never forget. I had to remind myself why I was there, riding for the wounded, as many times people would shake my hand saying "thanks for your service." They did have a handful of dedicated civilians who were also riding the route with us. It's a ride I highly recommend given what it supports and the fact that they have a police escort clearing the roads. It was also an informative immersion in up to date and cool looking handcycles, cycling related prosthetics, and electronic shifting. Answering a few TBI questions: Here are some recommended websites for traumatic brain injury. It just so happens, the military is currently involved in many ongoing TBI studies that might contribute more science about TBI. IED's in Iraq have led to large number of servicemen being inflicted with TBI. In the US, we have a reported 1.4 million TBI episodes/year. The recent Iraq war and other operations in the same time span has produced a reported 300,000 TBI incidents. That's a lot? Also, Bob Woodruff of ABC news went thru TBI from an IED injury while covering the Iraq war and his wife help set up a foundation running alongside the military programs. They have already contributed $1 million thru their foundation. So, I highly recommend these websites as a starting point. http://remind.org. Bob Woodruff's site www.abvi.org. This second website is for military but has a lot of useful information and they don't mind nonmilitary chipping in. Their forum is particularly useful and science based. It just so happens the second site has a link from the main Wounded Warrior page.