At 18, Ed Pulido joined the Army and spent 19 years in uniform. Four years after being wounded by a roadside bomb in Baquoba, Iraq, he lost his leg. He was discharged in 2005 and afterwards he decided to devote the rest of his life to work with a foundation helping the families of veterans who have been wounded or killed.

“But,” according to the Houston Chronicle, “he had one problem, he said: ‘how to initiate the contacts with corporate leaders, to be able to fundraise and to network.’ That’s where Sidney E. Goodfriend came in.”

Goodfriend had been a banker on Wall Street, mostly at Merril Lynch for about 25 years. But he remarked, he made enough money, he was looking for a career change and he wanted to make a contribution through public service.

Using his Wall Street connections and spending his own money, Goodfriend, 48, founded a group called American Corporate Partners, which pairs returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan with mentors from major corporations. He has enlisted six companies – Campbell’s, Home Depot, General Electric, PepsiCo, Verizon and investment bank Morgan Stanley – which have each promised to offer returning vets 50 mentors, in eight cities.

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