For last year’s 23rd tournament, he choose Freedom Alliance as one of the organizations that would benefit from the event. Furthermore, he asked us to gather members of our armed services, who have been injured in combat, to participate in the fishing.
Gladly doing so, we put our guests up at a home in nearby Waverly. The cabin, owned by Robert and Jody Jones, sits on a 300-acre lake.
Among our crew, we had three Marines from the Wounded Warrior Battalion at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
From the Polytrauma Transitional Rehabilitation Inpatient Program (PTRIP) in Richmond, Virginia, we had two recreational therapists and two patients recovering from disabilities.
Two special forces fellows joined the team, as well as Army, Marine, and Air Force veterans.
All in all, there were thirteen service members (including the Navy Corpsman who is a PTRIP therapist), as well as three of the servicemen’s children.
Woo Daves and his wife, Patty, collected a variety of items for a raffle and auction, including autographed pieces of wrecked NASCAR race cars. (The event is scheduled to coincide with the races in Richmond.)