Wyakin Warrior Foundation: a new way to help veterans | Boise, Garden City, Mountain Home | Idaho Statesman
Coeur d’Alene native Josh Callihan knows what it’s like to be a wounded veteran in need of help.
When he was just 20, he was shot in the back while serving as a Marine on the Iraq/Kuwait border. Paralyzed and in a wheelchair, he dropped, unprepared, back into civilian life. But a mentor stepped in at just the right time to give him a job — and a future.
Now Callihan, a public affairs specialist at the Boise Veterans Administration Medical Center, is joining a group of prominent veterans and local lawmakers to create a unique opportunity for recently discharged wounded veterans.
A $102,000 grant from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation will help pay for five students to begin their studies this fall at Boise State University and the College of Western Idaho through the new Wyakin Warrior Foundation.
“When a veteran comes home, severely wounded and struggling, questions of education and career aren’t always on the top of the list,” said Callihan. “But they should be.” [...]
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