I no longer support the wounded warrior project.

[AceArcher]

It's with great sadness, that I must personally withdraw my support for the Wounded Warrior Project. It's become very obvious that they have chosen as an organization to get away from the roots of what made them great.

some of the many reasons impacting my decision are as follows.

1) Their president was compensated over 400k in 2011
2) he is reported to have "earned" over 900k in 2012 from the wwp
3) much less than .30 cents of every donation is going to benefit vets / and or veterans programs. They have a solid consistent D rating (from charitable watch organizations) for spending far to much on "adminstrative" costs for every dollar they take in.
4) they have taken a position of not assisting vietnam era vets , and not including them in there activites.
5) recently they have also taken a position to not allow re-branding of their logo by any pro gun ownership organizations. http://www.examiner.com/article/woun...nti-gun-stance It's those same organizations that originally spread the word about how great it was to support them.

I fondly remember taking wounded vets out on the potomac and james rivers, and catching some monster catfish with some great vets.. WWP was then an organization based on giving these vets some great times to live for, because as people they had been through hell. I'm sad that the WWP's commercialization has come to this.

If anyone knows of an up and coming organization that is modeled after the WWP in its early years... please let me know.

Also please be aware that there are many organizations with "wounded warrior" in there name (there is an offical army program, there is also an official marine program. many of them do great work) In this post i am referring to the "Wounded Warrior Project"

I'm sure some will agree with this and others will disagree, Just want to spread the word so that everyone can form their own opinion.