By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Saturday, May 17, 2014-Rollover Pass, TX
Approximately sixty Wounded Warriors arrived from Houston at Rollover Pass in Gilchrist TX, Saturday morning to take part in a Wounded Warrior Project bike-a-thon. The WWP group started at Rollover Pass (Gilchrist) with its finish targeted for Fort Travis (near the Ferry landing). But with winds soon kicking up to 30/35 mph making the 26 mile ride arduous for the injured veterans involved, the WWP officials decided to cut the distance to the Crystal Beach area instead (about the half way).

Wounded Warrior Vets arrive to take part in the bike-a-thon ride from Rollover Pass to Fort Travis

With WWP officials taking the lead, the Vets crest the Rollover Bridge on their way to Crystal Beach

Wounded Warriors giving the Victory sign

Formed in 2003 at Roanoke VA, by a group of Veterans and friends, who wished to assist the injured vets of that generation, the Groups endeavor soon became the Wounded Warriors Project.

Wounded Warrior Project Info:
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a veterans service organization that offers a variety of programs, service and events for wounded veterans of the military actions following the events of 9/11/2001. It operates as a nonprofit organization with a mission to “honor and empower Wounded Warriors”of the United States Armed Forces, as well as provide services and programs for the family members of its registered “alumni,” as its registered veterans are called. WWP’s vision is to “foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation’s history,” as it works to raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women, to help severely injured service members aid and assist each other and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet their needs.

Military Insignias

As of August 1, 2013, WWP serves 35,648 registered alumni and 4,181 registered members, defined as family or caregivers of a registered alumni. In 2012, WWP spent $114,817,090 on programs in support of wounded veterans, their families and their caregivers, while contributing “nearly $5 million in grants to other charities, including the American Red Cross and Resounding Joy, a music therapy group in California, and also provided about $880,000 to nearly 100 veterans in the form of college scholarships and stipends for its year-long TRACK Program, which helps veterans transition to college and the workplace.” WWP has also provided funding to, and partnered with, Operation Homefront to “extend emergency financial assistance to military service members and veterans who incurred a physical or mental injury, illness or wound, which was not due to their own misconduct, co-incident to their military service on or after September 11, 2001 and their families.” “This emergency assistance will be in the form of cash grants paid to service providers to cover Service members’ most basic of needs, including food, rent and utilities.”

Wounded Warriors Project-Houston Office
2200 Space Park Drive, Suite 100
Houston TX, 77058
Phone: 832-536-3098
FAX: 281-333-2605