NO ONE LEFT BEHIND!
This May we will be observing another Memorial Day holiday. Reflecting on our WWII veterans, We often hear that each year we lose more and more of them. This idea affects me now on a personal level because this past April I lost my father, ...
“While We’re at War, America’s at the Mall.”
This phrase was in common use as far back as 2007. Phil Klay, a Marine vet writing in The New York Times on April 14 this year, suggests that it might have been in use as early as 2002.It’s true that we’re still in America’s ...
Another Change of Leadership
With the replacement of David Shulkin as VA Secretary, the second largest department of our federal government (after the Department of Defense) is once again looking for new leadership. Frankly, that’s more than a little disheartening. I ...
Veteran Identity Theft – The Horse Has Left the Barn
47 years of working with Veterans. I thought I’d run into every kind of challenge they face. Then, recently I attended a cybersecurity conference in Los Angeles, with presentations by the LAPD’s cybersecurity team and others fighting ...
It’s Time to Free Vietnam Veteran James “Sneaky” White
National Veterans Foundation President & Founder Shad Meshad has been working for decades on a pardon case here in California, the 44-year imprisonment of James “Sneaky” White, one of the most decorated chopper pilots of the Vietnam ...
A Legacy of Silence
Recently a vet I know called me about his brother. They both served in Iraq, at different times. One brother’s transition back into civilian life went, if not easily, then smoothly. He was soon back into his family, work, and community. ...
NVF at Oxnard Toy Drive
The National Veterans Foundation’s Outreach team, Micheal Washington & Gerald Hillard in conjunction with Car Clubs’ Eastside Classics and La Gente along with Oxnard Police Department sponsored a Toy Drive in the City of Oxnard at Del ...
It’s the Same the Whole World Over…for Veterans
“War changes you, there’s no denying that. It’s uselessto say it doesn’t or that you’ll get over it. You don’t.”Doesn’t this sound like it could have been said by a veteran you know? I’ve heard this countless times in my years as a ...
