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Day 5: Challenged America at the 2011 National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic Team Titan and Team Phoenix

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Blind veteran finds hope NBC 09/22/2011

NBC interviews Urban Miyares co founder of Challenged America during the National Summer Sports Clinic share: Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share … Continue reading

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Day 4: Challenged America at the 2011 National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic Team Nautilus and Team Calypso

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Day 3: Challenged America at the 2011 National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic Team Vulcan and Team Neptune

Day three of the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic, each day is more inspiring than the previous. share: Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin Share via … Continue reading

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Day 2: Challenged America and the 2011 Veterans National Summer Sports Clinic Team Apollo vs Team Olympus

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Day 1: Challenged America and the 2011 Veterans National Summer Sports Clinic Team Poseidon vs Team Mercury

The NVSSC is back in San Diego for the fourth time.  Today, at the Challenged America sailing venue, Team Poseidon and Team Mercury took to the water sailing on Stars and Stripes USA11 and the Martin 16s of Challenged America … Continue reading

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A Veteran’s Story of “Veterans Supporting Veterans @ Challenged America”

Once again, veterans from all over America are converging on San Diego for the annual National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic for recently injured veterans. In late September Challenged America (CA) will provide the sailing venue at the Marriott Marquis Hotel … Continue reading

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Recently injured veterans heal at Summer Sports Clinic

San Diego’s Challenged America therapeutic sailing program has a long history of healing veterans, both recently injured from combat and those acquiring a disability from other causes. And at this year’s 4th National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic, September 18 to … Continue reading

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Blind war vet shares vision of hope

NBC’s Mike Leonard profiles Urban Miyares, a blind California Vietnam War veteran who has made it his mission is to encourage other disabled people to test the tricky waters of entrepreneurship — and themselves. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world … Continue reading

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TELLY AWARD

You can now add the prestigious “Telly Award” to the long list of honors and recognition bestowed upon the Challenged America program. With 11,000 entries from 50 states and five countries, the Port of San Diego entered their in-house produced … Continue reading

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