U.S. Veteran · Iraq War (2003–2004)
Joshua L. Holm
Joshua L. Holm deployed to Iraq in 2003 and sustained combat-related injuries that left him paralyzed. An author, ordained minister, professional speaker, and founder of Steel Hope Foundation — Joshua's Journey is our anchor campaign.
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Joshua L. Holm deployed to Iraq in 2003 and served through 2004. During his deployment, he sustained combat-related injuries that left him paralyzed and living with traumatic brain injury.
But Joshua did not stop. He became an author, an ordained minister, and a professional speaker. He founded Steel Hope Foundation, his own nonprofit dedicated to helping others “BE STEEL: Believe, Expand, Stand, Transform, Encourage, Enlighten, and Love” — with humanitarian work reaching as far as Nigeria. A member of the Paralyzed Veterans of America, he uses a TrackChair for off-road mobility today.
What Joshua didn't have was the Wandercraft exoskeleton — FDA-cleared technology that could let him stand and walk again. The system told him someday, maybe.
Joshua's Journey is the anchor campaign of Walk For A Hero. Every mile walked, every dollar pledged, brings Joshua closer to that first step.
An exoskeleton doesn't erase what Joshua went through. It changes what comes next — the ability to stand at eye level again, to move through a room, a doorway, a crowd, under Joshua's own power. That's what every mile and every dollar on this page is actually buying.