Teenager Starts Charity to Grant Soldiers’ Wishes

Shauna Fleming, a teenager in Orange County, Calif., who three years ago started the “A Million Thanks” letter-writing campaign for U.S. troops fighting overseas, is establishing a nonprofit organization that grants wishes to wounded soldiers, the Associated Press reports.

Ms. Fleming’s decision to start the charity came after she visited troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, where she saw a woman who had lost both legs. “I thought, if she’s a mother, she may never get to run with her kids again,” Ms. Fleming said.

Ms. Fleming said she hopes to post the stories of wounded soldiers on a Web site and collect donations to pay for anything from a prosthetic limb to a needed vacation for veterans.