NO ONE LEFT BEHIND!
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of President George Bush on the passing of our last war Veteran president. NVF Founder and President was fortunate to meet President Bush in ’92 at the White House and was struck by the ...
Semper Fi in Action: Marine Vet Brian Tally’s Persistence and Integrity
The short title of the proposed legislation is the “'Rally Around Tally' VA Medical Care and Liability Improvement Act,” named for Marine Corps vet Brian Tally. And that’s the last of the short things.In 2016 Tally, suffering from ...
Remarks by Shad Meshad, President, National Veterans Foundation Los Angeles Veterans Cemetery, Veterans Day 2018
We meet today amidst the remains and memories of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. We owe them nothing less than total respect and gratitude on every day of every year.And then there are the 20 million ...
An Unexpected Good Turn for a Navy Veteran
Texas is a big state with many small towns. A call came in from a male Navy veteran in a small rural town of 5,076 people. He and his wife were in desperate need of food. They had been managing a hotel, which had been sold. In such a small ...
Getting a Lawyer for a Veteran
A woman veteran in Arizona had been through treatment for PTSD, MST (Military Sexual Trauma) and SUD (Substance Use Disorder). Although she was clean and sober, she’d had two DUI’s before she went into treatment. As a result of that, she ...
Marine Veteran Bikers to the Rescue
A 31-year-old combat veteran who served in Iraq was battling testicular cancer. He was living in a hotel to be close to the VA hospital in Florida where he was being treated, but he was running out of money. There are areas of the country ...
Baumhower’s Victory Grille Celebrates Veterans Day by donating 5% of Veterans Day Proceeds to National Veterans Foundation
Aloha Hospitality, Inc., parent company of Baumhower’s Victory Grille, will again honor our military heroes by donating 5% of their restaurant’s proceeds on Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11 to the veteran programs of the National Veterans ...
Crisis Call: Like Landing in a Field Hospital
A call came in from A Hero, a group of OIF and OEF Marine Corps and Army veterans on the Gulf Coast. They’d been contacted about a vet in crisis in the Southeast. Unable to find someone local, they called Shad and put him in touch with the ...
