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ABA salutes wounded warriors and John D. Folsom

November 21, 2005 - American Basketball Association (ABA) News Release


Indianapolis, IN. The American Basketball Association (ABA) salutes Wounded Warriors, a non-profit organization helping our wounded and their director John. D. Folsom, Colonel, USMCR. From the Wounded Warriors website (www.woundedwarriors.org): "Our armed forces are actively engaged in Operations "Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan and "Iraqi Freedom in Iraq. Along with our coalition partners, soliders and Marines are actively seeking out those terrorists and insurgents whose sole aim is to terrorize and destabilze the emerging democracies of Afghanistan and Iraq. Because these are combat operations, Marines and soldiers are wounded or injured and require treatment at medical facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany and in the United States.

Wounded Warriors, through its generous contributors, supports hospitals and medical facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq theatre of operations, Germany and the United States by donating morale and comfort items such as televisions, DVDs, and computers and peripherals for use by the patients and hospital staff. In order to provide the best support possible, we have developed and maintained an extensive list of points of contacts at the military hospitals in the United States and overseas. Our contacts include hospital administrators and military chaplains who support those who are medically evacuated from the field and we, in turn, support them by filling the morale and comfort requirements that they identify. Because we work closely with the hospital stagffs, we donate only those items that are needed to best support their patients and operations.

Communication with our contributors is essential. Our monthly newsletter is delivered electronically to thousands of e-mail accounts around the world. We provide our contributors with the latest news and a report how their generous contributions are being invested. Wounded Warriors is a lean organization. We have no employees. While we maintain an office address for our registered agent, we have no office space. All of our business is conducted over the internet; a true virtual organization that ensures that 95% of the contributions it receives go to the soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines it supports.

ABA Salute raises funds for the military and its families through the sale of merchandise (www.abasalute.com) or simply by clicking the Salute icon on the ABA website (www.abalive.com) or emailing jennifer@abasalute.com. ABA Salute will include donations to the Wounded Warriors - and hopes that you will support this very worthy cause. -

Note: OurSports Central no longer actively covers the American Basketball Association (ABA) as a professional league due in part to its inability to publish and play a schedule and the transitory nature of many of its teams. For information on professional minor leagues, please see OSC's basketball section.



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