Victorinox Swiss Army and Wounded Warrior Project - Donna Pratt Media
Published: 6 years ago
Victorinox Swiss Army continues their program in support of Wounded Warrior Project by bringing together two warriors, Jeffrey Adams and Donna Pratt, together with two veteran artists from the United States Veteran’s Artists Alliance (USVAA) to translate the warriors’ stories into designs. The designs appear on the handle of the Tinker Swiss Army Knife.
Donna Pratt joined the Army during the Gulf War and after an eight-year break, rejoined after 9/11. During her time in Iraq she obtained numerous injuries, which required multiple surgeries to repair the damaged tendons, torn ligaments, fractured bones in her feet and ankles. After two years in a wheelchair, Donna was feeling hopeless. A friend invited her to attend a wheelchair basketball camp. It was then that she felt reborn and began to pursue other adaptive sports opportunities including hand biking in the WWP Soldier Ride, skiing the mountains in Utah, to becoming a certified archery instructor. Today Donna still deals with pain in her ankles, knees and back, but she does not allow this to slow her down. She says, “I don’t adapt to life. I make life adapt to me.” Donna created her knife in partnership with Jamie Peterson, showing the adaptive sports instrumental in Donna’s emotional and physical recovery. The arrow reads “don’t adapt to life” which connects to the target on the front that reads “make life adapt to you.”
To learn more about Victorinox Swiss Army’s portfolio of products please visit www.SwissArmy.com.
Donna Pratt joined the Army during the Gulf War and after an eight-year break, rejoined after 9/11. During her time in Iraq she obtained numerous injuries, which required multiple surgeries to repair the damaged tendons, torn ligaments, fractured bones in her feet and ankles. After two years in a wheelchair, Donna was feeling hopeless. A friend invited her to attend a wheelchair basketball camp. It was then that she felt reborn and began to pursue other adaptive sports opportunities including hand biking in the WWP Soldier Ride, skiing the mountains in Utah, to becoming a certified archery instructor. Today Donna still deals with pain in her ankles, knees and back, but she does not allow this to slow her down. She says, “I don’t adapt to life. I make life adapt to me.” Donna created her knife in partnership with Jamie Peterson, showing the adaptive sports instrumental in Donna’s emotional and physical recovery. The arrow reads “don’t adapt to life” which connects to the target on the front that reads “make life adapt to you.”
To learn more about Victorinox Swiss Army’s portfolio of products please visit www.SwissArmy.com.