Shad Meshad | Founder National Veterans Foundation

More than a Day of Remembrance

By Shad Meshad / November 6, 2014

Veterans Day is next Tuesday. Our nation has seen twelve years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The war has…

By Shad Meshad / October 28, 2014

As Veterans Day approaches, I wanted to highlight a couple of veterans’ successes by sharing stories that show the importance…

By Shad Meshad / September 15, 2014

It was 1987, a little over ten years after the end of the Vietnam War, when Good Morning, Vietnam opened…

By Shad Meshad / September 13, 2014

“The Vietnam experience changed my life. I knew that if I survived Vietnam when I got back I owed it…

By Shad Meshad / August 28, 2014

From Shad Meshad’s Blog at the Huffington Post Just about the time I was working to develop and lobby for…

By Shad Meshad / July 31, 2014

You probably knew him as Maverick or Rockford. He was an icon in film and television. At the National Veterans…

By Shad Meshad / July 7, 2014

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a duck walks into the VA… Sometimes exaggerating to the point of absurdity…

By Shad Meshad / July 3, 2014

Everybody’s in, right? So what’s first class medical care? Maybe Bill Gates’s plan? The President’s? Donald Trump’s? One of those…