Homes For Our Troops In Williamsburg VA

Today I have the disticnt honor of being part of the group escorting Cpl Jonathan Jackson to his homesite in York County for the Groundbreaking Ceremony.

This escort detail was put together in about 12 hours, once I asked the right people for help. It was touch and go for awhile, but thanks to the efforts of a DC legend, Hal Koster, former Dustoff driver and the man responsible for the Friday night dinners for the wounded, the American Legion and the Legion Riders stepped up and we'll have a proper detail for this young Warrior.

I've been privileged to work with HFOT on two previous occasions, one for a Builders Brigade for USMC Sgt Steve Kiernan and one for the Key Ceremony for SSgt Dwayne Cole. Working with my crack group of volunteers, we provided the meals for each of those events.

HFOT provides adaptive homes to wounded veterans free of charge. The homes are designed with the needs of the specific veteran in mind. Automatic doors, voice activated controls, ground level, oversize openings and ramps are normal design criteria for these homes.

Cooking With the Troops Website Is Live

Although not fully functional and lacking in some content, CWtT is live on the web. We are currently under development and will have a lot more content soon.

We have no less than three events planned between now and 10 September. All of the events involve cooking and feeding troops or those who are making the lives of our troops more pleasant.

Our first event for Sgt Steve Kiernan was a huge success and YouServed.com has a blogpost coming out on Monday morning covering it. Of course, we have conveniently placed the widget for YouServed on our sidebar so all you have to do is scroll down a bit and viola there you are.

I'm very honored to be a part of this organization and even more humbled that The Hammer thinks enough of our efforts to join us on the Board of Directors.

What began for me as an informal, impromptu going away party/cookout in 2006 for a wounded Kentucky National Guard soldier at Walter Reed has transformed into an international effort backed up by Soldiers Angels, Warrior Legacy, hundreds of milbloggers and ordinary Americans who just want to help.

God Bless America and God Bless our Warriors.

LETS EAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Homes For Our Troops Fredericksburg VA

DC Protest Warrior: Homes For Our Troops Fredericksburg VA
Homes For Our Troops Fredericksburg VA

Yesterday, volunteers from Warrior Legacy Foundation and Cooking With the Troops prepared and served lunch to the workers and neighbors building USMC Sgt Steve Kiernan's new adaptive home.

As you will hear, this home is being built with 100% donations from the contractors and building material suppliers.

Videos are being processed and will be up ASAP. Sorry I couldn't make the Livestream work.

Marine Veteran Gets Help From HFOT

Click here to learn more about the Sgt Steve Kiernan Project

Milblog Conference 2010-Featured Charities

Featured Charities at the 2010 Fifth Annual Milblog Conference
By Andi

A couple of years ago, we began choosing military charities to feature at The MilBlog Conference. This year, given it's the Fifth Anniversary Conference, we've chosen two charities to feature.

They are: Homes For Our Troops

We are Homes for Our Troops, a national non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2004. We are strongly committed to helping those who have selflessly given to our country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries since September 11, 2001. It is our duty and our honor to assist severely injured Servicemen and Servicewomen and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a home that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live more independently.

The homes provided by Homes for Our Troops are given at NO COST to the Veterans we serve.

Soldiers' Angels

Soldiers' Angels is a volunteer-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing aid and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and their families. Founded by the mother of two American soldiers, we are an international, volunteer-led organization supporting America's men and women in uniform.

With over 30 different teams and projects, our nearly 200,000 volunteers assist veterans, wounded and deployed personnel and their families in a variety of unique and effective ways.

This year, we're bringing back the fun and highly successful Jail-N-Bail. We'll run the jailhouse for one hour during Friday's opening cocktail reception. All funds from the Jail-N-Bail will go to the featured charities. Attendees who issue arrest warrants and criminals who raise bail money will choose which organization will receive their donation. Both organizations will be presented with funds raised at Saturday night's dinner and party.

In the past, our attendees and sponsors have been very generous to our featured charities and we're grateful to all who have donated.

There is no pressure on attendees to give to the charities. At a minimum, we want to spotlight organizations which are doing great things for the military community, and if we can raise some money to help them continue their great work in the process - all the better.