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Wheelchairs for Warriors Program assists severely disabled veterans with the opportunity to participate in the journey of a marathon with the assistance of a willing runner or runners to push them through the event. The completion of a marathon is an accomplishment of a lifetime and often fullfills a journey of spiritual healing.

This programs efforts are focused on disabled veterans whose injuries are so severe they cannot compete alone. These veterans have likely suffered a fully paralyzing or brain injury of a debilitating, and grievious nature.

Patrick Webster, LCPL USMC and Juli Goldstein, who is the 2009 Miss Florida Completed the Final Voyage of the Tampa Marathon along with Marc in a time of 4 Hours and 12 minutes! We had so much support along the way and cheers from the crowd as they clapped for us as we passed by. Thank you to everybody that helped make this happen again this year! More pictures will be posted soon!

The program was founded in 2008 by GySgt Marc Reed USMC. Marc along with U.S. Navy Veteran Michael Kuhn of Ocala, Florida completed the Tampa Marathon on March 1st 2009 in 4 hours and 26 minutes. This inaugural event was made possible due to the generous sponsorships of local businesses and many individual contributions. Colours Wheelchairs, provided a custom designed wheelchair with a specially fabricated pushbar for the event which was then in turn donated to Michael and his family for his future use.

To make an individual contribution or provide corporate sponsorship for this effort, visit http://www.armedforcesfoundation.org/donations/. Remember to specify "Wheelchairs for Warriors" in the program box.