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I am also now involved (as a donor of my fleece stuff) with The Bob Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury. There was an online auction in October through www.charityfolks.com You can bid on any number of auctions for a wide variety of good causes.

While many of you may be aware of who Bob Woodruff is, it kind of all began with his friend David Blum who, a couple of years ago, was doing daily coverage in a tank. He gave us all some real insight into the day to day life of the soldiers in Iraq. He died of a brain embolism which had traveled from his leg because of the cramped quarters he was sitting in. Then months later Bob Woodruff was shot and suffered a serious head-wound from which he is still recovering. This is what the Fund is about, not Bob himself, but Traumatic Brain Injury.

What follows is something Lee Woodruff forwarded to me which will help to inform us all:

You may have followed our own family’s journey over the past year as Bob healed from a traumatic brain injury sustained in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack while covering the story in Iraq. Our lives changed in an instant. Like any family that goes through a trauma, we’ve all had to heal.

In many ways our journey has been a challenge, but we are among the lucky ones. Bob’s recovery has been nothing short of miraculous; due in large part and with many thanks to the gracious help, heartfelt prayers and overwhelming goodwill of people like you. We have learned that many of the injured service members returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not as fortunate as us.

As you know, so many of our bright young men and woman have volunteered to risk their lives each and every day in Iraq and Afghanistan. In many homes around the country, these same families are feeling the very personal cost of war. Advances in equipment, armor, and combat casualty care have resulted in a survival rate that exceeds that of any war we’ve ever experienced. Service members are surviving with serious injuries that in previous conflicts would have been fatal.

TBI, combat stress injuries, and other combat-related injuries usually require extensive, long-term care and support. We believe the injured and their families need more than just the support currently provided by the US Departments of Defense and Veteran’s Affairs. We want to ensure that our young heroes and their families receive a lifetime of state of the art treatment options, education, employment opportunities, and other long-term support to enable them to integrate, with sustained success, back into their communities.

MORE INFO TO COME WITH REGARDS TO THIS

For now you can contact:

www.charityfolks.com

for information on this event and many. many other causes which may be of interest to you

Pictured below is my new buddy Cameron modeling a special order Choo Choo train top!!!