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Honoring some real heroes

Peter Abraham
March
5

The Yankees just had three wounded Iraq vets throw out the first pitch.

Johnny Damon, the national spokesman for the Wounded Warrior Project, was out there with Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert Roeder, Cpt. Jon Pruden and Sgt. Jace Badia. The crowd gave them a standing ovation.

Check out the web site for Wounded Warrior. Those people are doing great work and it’s commendable of Johnny to spend the time he does promoting it.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 1:08 pm by Peter Abraham.
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4 Responses to “Honoring some real heroes”

  1. al arodien

    does anyone know the wether ouy there?

  2. FLYankeeRican

    Anyone know of online audio for the game today?

  3. Andrew

    Peter,

    fyi-
    The Wounded Warrior link has a typo (”r” instead of “d” at the end of wounded)

    Thanks for the great blog. I read it everyday.

    Andrew

  4. Frank Discussion

    I served 12 years in the US Army and I’m also a disabled veteran. It’s great to see Damon take such a personal interest in this project.

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