Posts Tagged ‘veterans’

Vets Helping Heroes


31 Jan

I love highlighting organizations like this one. I have written in other places about Pets2Vets, which helps provide companion animals to veterans. The animals come from shelters, so the soldiers aren’t just getting a pet, they’re saving a life.

Vets Helping Heroes works to help provide veterans with service dogs, which comes with a much higher expense. Currently, our federal government does not provide any assistance to veterans who would benefit from a service animal. Vets Helping Heroes is lobbying to change that, but in the meantime, they are raising funds to provide as many service animals as they can.

Thank You


11 Nov

Today is Veterans’ Day. It is a day to honor those who have served our country. I honor my brother, my father, two uncles, and both grandfathers along with a father-in-law and a grandfather-in-law that I never had the chance to meet. I also honor numerous friends who have served in every branch of the military, and some who are still serving.

Yes, I am a “Liberal”, and I do not always agree with our government’s reasoning for sending the troops places, but that does not change the respect I have for those who have chosen to serve our country.

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