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Welcome...
After years of living life to its fullest, and playing paintball as much as possible,
a couple friends and I decided that it might be fun to put on some of our own events. We figured it couldn't be too
hard, after all, some of the events we went to were pretty lame and still cost us a pretty penny
to play. "There must be a boat load of money to be had in running paintball events", we thought.
Well, three plus years later and a lot poorer, we have found the truth: "Running
paintball events is a lot of hard work, with little or no reward." So why do it you ask?
Well, that question plagued us for a long time (seconds actually -
but it felt like a long time to me...), until we remembered who
attended most of our events, Military, ex-military, law enforcement (players not responders) and
others who usually ending up giving of themselves to our great country in their daily jobs.
The answer's easy now, we do this for you, and for those who
sacrifice daily to keep us free. We focus our events towards
saying thank you to a very worthy group of individuals who have given more than they should have, to
keep our Nation free.
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Here's one reason why our events support
and raise funds for the Wounded Warrior Project:
 Ed Salau
Ed’s Army National Guard unit was deployed to Iraq in February 2004. Ed is very down-to-earth in describing what happened:
“In November 2004, we were on a regular patrol in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, looking for bad guys. We found them when they initiated contact with two rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). I was standing in the turret at the time, and one of the RPGs found its way into the Bradley, exploding and taking off my leg and the leg of one of my men.”
Though Ed’s unit got the insurgents who had injured him and the other soldier and finished off the battle that ensued, it was the end of the war for Ed and the other man, who found themselves at Walter Reed Army Medical Center two days later.
Recuperation: Ed remained at Walter Reed Army Medical Center until he was medically retired on April 2, 2005. He underwent several surgeries and did physical rehabilitation every day, and takes the stoic attitude toward the ordeal that one might expect of a fully indoctrinated member of the armed forces: “Oh, I guess there were hard days and easy days. I learned to walk again. That’s what matters.”
To find out more about this and other Wounded Warriors,
visit to the Wounded Warrior Project at:
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org
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