The Wounded Warrior Project The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) was started in 2003 in Roanoke Virginia by John Melia. During John’s tour his Marine Corps helicopter crashed killing four and injuring 14 more including himself. His experience coming home opened up many gaps in service delivery to wounded military members. To help fill in these gaps John created WWP in his basement with 50 dollars. Today WWP is one of the nation’s most recognized and fastest growing veteran service charities. Melia brought
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2013/04/17 Virginia tech massacre Virginia tech massacre is a tragedy‚ and the whole world was shocked by this. 34 people were killed‚ and 17 other were wounded‚ which included students and teachers. Many families were destroyed in a day‚ many people lost their friend and family forever. And those people who get killed‚ they may have a bright future‚ but they don’t have a chance to have it anymore. This event is unbelievable‚ but which is more unbelievable and sad is; this massacre was done by a 23 years
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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 501(C)(3) organization with a mission to "honor and empower Wounded Warriors"[2] 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
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The Boston Massacre was and is still a debatable Massacre. The event occurred on March 5‚ 1776. It involved the rope workers of the colonial Boston and two British regiments‚ the twenty-ninth and the fourteenth regiments. Eleven people were shot in the incident; five people were killed and the other six were merely wounded. The soldiers and the captain‚ Thomas Preston‚ were all put on trial. All were acquitted of charges of murder‚ however the two soldiers who fired first‚ Private Mathew Killroy
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The Massacre of Tlatelolco 1968 “Women with their torsos torn apart by machine gun fire; children with their heads destroyed by the impact of high velocity weaponry‚ innocent bystanders gunned down; onlookers and journalist felled in the course of their everyday life; students‚ police officers and soldiers dead and wounded…Perhaps the most surprising aspect was the huge number of blood-stained shoes that were scattered around the area‚ silent witnesses to the disappearance of their owners” (Poniatowska
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The Colfax Massacre‚ one of the bloodiest mass-murders during the Reconstruction‚ took place on April 13‚ 1873 in Colfax‚ Louisiana. The massacre / riot was a result of the gubernatorial elections of 1872 held in Louisiana. The election was between McEnery‚ the white conservative legislature candidate‚ and William Pitt Kellogg‚ a carpetbagger (a Northerner who came to the South to help the blacks) of the Radical Republican Party. The election resulted in two different outcomes. Although McEnery actually
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The Boston Massacre Trial: Guilty or Not Guilty? The Boston Massacre was a small tragedy that is making a large mark in the state of Massachusetts. This event will forever be remembered as the day that British soldiers heartlessly slaughtered many innocent civilians. The soldiers in this situation are most definitely guilty of manslaughter. They wounded and killed many citizens without provocation that threatened their well being‚ therefore giving them no good reason to have opened fire in the
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The Boston Massacre What happened the night of the Boston massacre? During this reading you will walk through the events written by four different sources leading up to that night of march 5‚ 1770 and be witnesses to the trial where captain Preston and his men are being tried for murder‚ defended by Samuel Adams. Boston Massacre in Facts and Numbers the Massacre occurred on the evening of March 5‚ 1770. Five civilians died as a result of the incident‚ three died on the scene and two died later.
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at the MET museum on Friday after I saw what I am about to explain. I thought my love for art was at its highest and couldn’t go beyond‚ but my love for art has grown tremendously after I laid my eyes on the beautiful Francois-Joseph Navez’s “The Massacre of the Innocents.” A painting that no matter the writer;can’t be explained with words‚ but needs to be seen personally. ” Navez was a Belgian neo-classical painter student of Jacques-Louis in Paris. “This is an intimate family drama who’s frightening
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A hard knock in the leg to the area behind the knee would certainly be painful. This area is called the popliteal fossa. The nerves most important nerve traveling through this area is the popliteal nerve that travels to the lower leg and foot and allowing both sensation and motor strength. Injury to the popliteal nerve can cause numbness‚ tingling‚ pain‚ and weakness in the lower leg‚ ankle and foot. Vascular injury could cause a bleed from either popliteal artery or vein causing a hematoma or blood
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