I want to give a big THANK YOU to Southbay Motorsports and Team Kawasaki for the great Supercross Autograph Party tonight! Team Kawasaki signed a HJC Helmet donated by Southbay Motorsports. The helmet will be in the opportunity drawing at our Poker Ride on June 2nd at Southbay Motorsports. To sign up for the ride go to www.woundedwarriorhomes.org ALL style street legal bikes WELCOME!!!

Thank you for your support of Wounded Warrior Homes and those injured serving our country. Today is a special day as we join hundreds of San Diego nonprofits raising funds for their organizations through the San Diego Foundation’s, GIVE BIG San Diego fundraiser. The Foundation will match approximately 30% of the total we raise starting today at 7am. Donations of $25 to $10,000 are eligible for matching funds from The San Diego Foundation’s match pool, which is currently $150,000. Here is how you can help; spread the word at work, to your friends, twitter, Facebook, and copy/paste the following link ( http://givebig.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html”>clicking here to donate ). The funds raised for us will go toward our housing program. We hope to have your continued support. This program ends Dec. 15 at 7:00 p.m. There will be a follow –up posting giving you the results of our effort. Thank you for you

Happy Birthday USMC! It is our honor to serve you! From the founders and volunteers at Wounded Warrior Homes. MCB QUANTICO, Va. — The U.S. Marine Corps begins preparations for its ‘‘birthday party” every summer. Activities become more feverish as the fall hues arrive. By early November, every Marine is either rehearsing his role in the ‘‘party” or pressing, polishing and spit-shining in order to appear at his or her best for the Birthday Ball. This has not always been the case, however. In fact, Marines have not always celebrated their founding on Nov. 10. Formal commemoration of the birthday of the Marine Corps began on Nov. 10,1921. That particular date was chosen because on that day the Second Continental Congress resolved in 1775 to raise two battalions of Continental Marines. Until 1921 the birthday of the Corps had been celebrated on another date. An unidentified newspaper clipping from 1918

This morning a friend send me the link to a wonderful CBS news story last night about the Warriors Baseball Te am. The video made me smile, I know you will too! http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385288n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

SAN DIEGO – August 19, 2011 – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a serious problem that has plagued veterans of all wars for thousands of years, long before it was officially recognized as a medical condition. PTSD has been called a “signature injury” of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Previous reports have estimated that as many as 30% of those returning home have stress-related medical issues. Local statistics echo that estimate: at the VA Hospital of San Diego, one-third of OIF/OEF veterans indicate a potential stress related disorder in the process of completing the VA’s mandatory screening program, which is based on the idea that better identification of the problem leads to better treatment.  The good news is that PTSD research, including that which is administered and funded through the Veterans Medical Research Foundation (VMRF) is as deep and diverse as the problem itself. In fact, a VMRF

A Night Under the Stars, A Mission Valley Craft Beer and Food Event The Handlery Hotel is honoring Wounded Warrior Homes as the recipient of this fundraising event. A Night Under the Stars, A Mission Valley Craft Beer and Food Event will be an amazing night filled with local craft beers, and amazing creating by some of San Diego’s top executive chefs! If you like beer…you need to be here If you like amazing food…you need to be here If you like amazing food and beer you MUST be here! Friday November 4, 2011 6-9 pm Handlery Hotel & Resort 950 Hotel Circle North San Diego, CA 92108 For more information about the event call Mia Roseberry @ 760.483.3553  or email mia@woundedwarriorhomes.org

The Second Annual Returning Soldiers Speak: An Evening of Poetry and Prose November 12, 2011 Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291 Reception at 6:00 PM – Readings at 7:00 PM. Join us for readings by veterans of foreign conflict with John Rixey Moore, Jim Miller, Michael Sadler, James Mathers, participants of the West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital Creative Writing Workshop, and other distinguished guests. This tribute to veterans is inspired by the late poet, graphic artist and activist Lee Mihn Sloca. Lee’s friends and fellow poets– Leilani Squire, Ric Gentry, Gedda Ilves David Obsusin, Lauren Segal–will carry on this event in his memory. Moderated by Leilani Squire. Chase Weston, Wounded Warrior Homes Board Member will be speaking. Proceeds from donations at the door will be divided to Wounded Warrior Homes that serves medically discharged veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with affordable housing and hands-on

I have to say THANK YOU to all the riders, volunteers, sponsors, vendors and board members who worked this event last Saturday!!!! This event was amazing! You helped raise…..drum roll please…..$3,807.78!!! We had 107 riders, only 32 of them were preregistered. I started to cry when a large number of riders rode into NTC park at 7:30 on Sat morning! Registration started at 8am…. We are working on the date or dates for next year already! I am setting a personal goal of 200 riders next year! THANK YOU AGAIN TO EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!! Especially CASSIDY MCFARLAND for choosing Wounded Warrior Homes as the charity for this amazing event! Check back soon….we will be posting pictures by the end of the week!

We can remember with crystal clarity where we were and exactly what we were doing in the fateful moments on the morning of 9/11…. Where were you and how has your life changed today? What are you doing, that you would not have been doing today? Please join the discussion and leave a comment….