Everyday Dave Cummings picks up a basketball, stands before the hoop and shoots for hours.

He’s not a professional player with a big salary. He’s just an average family man from rural Epsom, New Hampshire aiming to net $1 million for America’s soldiers, one foul shot at a time.

“I’m doing it to support our veterans and our service men and women who on a daily basis are sacrificing far more than I ever had to sacrifice in my life,” said Cummings during one of his many shooting sessions which take place either in his driveway or the local school gym.

Having never served in the military himself, Cummings said he feels compelled to give back and show his appreciation.

“This is just sort of my way of bridging that gap and repaying that debt of gratitude that I feel like I owe,” said Cummings.

Cummings makes foul shots in exchange for donations, and sponsors from all 50 states have donated to Hoops for Heroes, the website set up for his project.

The number of baskets is tracked via video and the incoming cash goes to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, a non-profit organization that got its start helping the families of fallen service men and woman.

Today, the IFHF has an expanded mission helping wounded veterans returning from war.

“So many men and women are now able to be saved in battle and they’re coming home with lifelong and life altering injuries,” explains Cummings. “I just sort of had this profound realization about what that means, what that issue involves and it’s something that can never have enough money thrown at it or enough attention thrown at it.”

Arnold Fisher, honorary chairman of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, feels the same way.

Fisher believes that it’s up to Americans all across the country to help the soldiers returning from war recover, whether the wounds are physical or psychological.

“Never, never use the word charity in front of me,” said Fisher. “You don’t give charity to the military. It’s our duty.”

More than 600,000 people answered the call to contribute to a state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation center at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.

The Center for the Intrepid opened in 2007, serving military personnel who have been disabled.

Soon thereafter, The National Intrepid Center of Excellence opened in Bethesda, Maryland aimed at helping soldiers recover from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and post traumatic stress.

Fisher hailed Cumming’s effort to aid the programs supported by the Fund.

“I think it’s wonderful. Anything you can do that will raise money given toward the projects that we work on is on a mission,” said Fisher. “The soldiers and the Marines that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are on a mission and so are we and so is he.”

Cummings shoots on average more than 1,300 hoops a day and he doesn’t miss many, making about 92 percent, an average many NBA stars would envy.

He says his million basket goal doesn’t seem so daunting when he thinks of the sacrifices America’s soldiers are making around the world.

Boots placed symbolically beneath the basket, a gift from a soldier that served, are his reminder.

“The shoes are my way of remembering what I’m doing here each day for the men and women who might otherwise be on a basketball court if they weren’t serving our country,” said Cummings.

Cummings will hit his half way mark today on Veterans Day, hitting basket 500 thousand on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid, home of the Sea, Air and Space Museum, in New York City.

He aims to hit his 1 million basket goal on Veteran’s Day of 2011.

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