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, ...
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 ...
Looking Forward, Looking Back
This is the time of year when we look forward and back. We’ve talked about a lot of issues our men and women veterans face this past year. In our day-to-day at the National Veterans Foundation, several incidents from our Lifeline for Vets ...
Airstreams Trains Veterans for Good Paying Jobs
Training and Jobs for VeteransAirstreams Renewables, Inc. is a great renewable energy training company in Tehachapi, California. They are training veterans and assisting them high demand jobs with there many industry partnerships. ...
Sgt. Major Jesse Acosta: Back at the VA
I got a call the other day from Sergeant Major Jesse Acosta. You might remember that I wrote about him here last March when the VA revoked his caregiver benefits. Acosta, blinded by a mortar attack in Iraq, has been rated 70% disabled by ...
Math for Veterans Day: .5%
That really should say < .5% What’s that mean? Less than one-half of one percent.That’s the percentage of the U.S. population who make up our military. That’s pretty sobering, isn’t it? Such a small percentage.November 11th ...
Veterans Day 2017 Stories from the Lifeline for Vets
When Veterans call our Lifeline for Vets™ – 888-777-4443 they need someone to talk to, someone who understands, someone they can trust. They reach another veteran of America’s armed forces. Speaking to another veteran who “gets it” is ...
Women Veterans: Her Own Field of Combat
We met her at an LA Collaborative meeting. That’s the Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative, a group of community stakeholders, agencies and representatives serving veterans and military families in Greater Los Angeles. Like the NVF’s Women ...
