Author: Laurie Cox (The VFW lady)
My name is Laurie Cox, and I am an active member of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The mission of our organization is to assist the VFW in a multitude of programs that benefit Veterans, their families, America‘s Youth, and the communities in which we exist.
As a huge Veteran supporter, this Lady applauds all organizations who truly exist to “Support Our Troops” both past and present. I currently serve as the 2011-2012 Chaplain for my Auxiliary.
Over the years I have encountered hundreds of groups that do wonderful work fighting to preserve the quality of life, improve healthcare, and/or to protect the rights of America’s Veterans.
I started this blog because I wanted to get the word out about not only the LAVFW, but also to give a big “SHOUT OUT!” to the thousands of businesses and groups wishing or existing to assist veterans and their families.
If you know of a veteran (or the family member of a veteran) who is in need of special assistance, moral support, something fun to do, scholarship information, patriotic confirmation, or simply a way to save money…..
My hope is that you will find a positive, plausible, or possible: solution, recommendation, or topic of conversation…..right here.
I am proud of Laurie as VFW Lady fully dedicated to the service of the troops being deployed by America in about 18 countries globally. To serve troops is to serve humanity, and to serve the nation! I can not but salute Laurie with the highest respect and regards for commencing such remarkable job in the history of American army. Laurie, you are really a great lady with a great vision and mission to fulfill the huge aspiration of American troops on foreign lands. I am with you and behind you all the time for your mission undertaken with your confidence!!! Yours best friend from Nepal, a tiny Himalayan country with Mount Everest as the highest icon of your mission.
Always glad to see more people supporting military veterans and their families. It is so easy to forget the sacrifices they make.
God bless you and others like you, we need them so bad in this day and age.
to think what is happening ..tell it to my friends i love and lost in vietnam,my uncle and cousins i lost in ww2, neighbors who fought in Korea,desert storm i can go on and on but WHY DO THEY WANT TO CLOSE A HOME FOR THE HOMELESS ???? who served our AMERICAN IN HER TIME OF NEED????? and are entitled to a shelter
they paid with their blood sweat and tears…. GOD WILL MAKE THEM ACCOUNTABLE WHEN THEY FACE THEIR MAKER but who can wait that long
Hello Laurie, This is Great! I am also a Service connected small business contract holder. My brother and I are in business together and hire Veterans exclusively to build our quality office seating. Unfortunately we have people laid off right now due to the economy. I think this site is a fantastic idea and I hope we can hire more Vets in the near future. If you would like to check us out, you can visit our websites at http://patriotseating.com/, where you can watch a video of our operation and http://veteranrepco.com/ for further information. Our veterans are going to need all the help they can get and I believe your site will be of great help to them. Good luck and God bless your endeavors. Sincerely, Jim Altiero
Thanks for the links, Jim! I’m enjoying the music on VRC right now. God Bless you too, and I pray that we’re both around to see many many Veterans filling those awesome seats of yours very very soon!
Hi Laurie,
Thank you for your blog, it is a great service to gather all of these resources for VETS in one place.
The George Washington University has developed a specialized Master’s degree program, geared toward training professionals in the field of
special education and brain injury. The brain injury special educator may work directly with children with acquired brain injury (ABI) or with the school teams and families who support them. This is a great program for VETS thinking about returning to school to pursue a career in teaching, scholarships are available.
Great information, Theresa! Thanks for sharing.
Would you be interested in helping with soldier stockings for the WTB on Fort Knox for our wounded soldiers for the holidays to help boost their morale
Absolutely, Melissa! I’m sure that I am not the only person willing to help either! Send me the details, (where to send items, letters, donations, etc) and I’ll post it for you!
God Bless,
Laurie
Hi Laurie,
We are a brand new site that offers soldiers the ability to create a registry (wish list) and share it with people. We would love to have your feedback on the site.
http://www.soldiersend.com
Lloyd
Lloyd,
Your site is fabulous and, might I add, such a wonderful idea! You are making it easy for folks to share the love for our troops here, there, and everywhere. Thank you for creating and sharing this.
Laurie
I am starting a Non-Profit that I expect to take National at some point. Our Mission is to help treat the cause of our clients challenges instead of just dealing with the symptoms. There are 2 main challenges our veterans that are experiencing being Homeless have. Problem number 1 lack of housing. We will be providing transitional to permanent housing as I am a well trained and experienced real estate investor. I know how to provide the housing. Problem number 2 Mindset. I have access to many people that can help introduce information from Financial Education based on the Rich Dad Poor Dad Information, Goal Setting, Self Esteem, Alternative Health Options, Entrepreneur options and many more. Our Organization is called “Sharing It Forward” and you can view our website at http://www.sharingitforward.com. I will share and post more information soon and I am on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/sharingitforward, LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharingitforwardkristen and twitter at @sharingforward. I am also working on getting many special offers and discounts from different sources. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. Wealthy Wishes Kristen
Hello, I am interested in advertising. Please contact me.
Thank you for the offer, Jessica. Unfortunately, I am trying to keep this as a strictly non-profit website. The only advertisements on here are those from WordPress, and I have thought about paying to keep those off as well.
Hoping for your help in exchange for thanks in our credits and I thought you might be interested in spreading the word. Our documentary is about the unemployed and features veterans, and hard to place individuals in their struggle to obtain work. Hoping you’ll place us on your social media outlets via twitter and facebook and/or review on your blog (or even feature us in your newsletters) with a link. We believe the voice of these individuals need to be heard and we have an award winning team willing to do so…but we need help in order to get it out into festivals and theatres across the world (and to in essence finish it!). Please check out our documentary about these very people who include veterans and hard to place. It’s on kickstarter right now and needs support& spread the word! Kickstarter is all or nothing so we have 22 days to reach our goal or else we receive $0 and cannot finish. Thanks so much for the possibility to spread the word to others who may want to support it. http://kck.st/yotKLa
Hello Laurie, We are a brand new start up organization for veterans and their spouses to assist in any way we can from education to finding homes for veterans. Both of us founders are DAVs and are tired of the organizations that take money to help the vets and then pocket the money. Our goal is to help the VET. Please check out our organization which is just in the beginning so there are some blank pages that we are working on. Please go to http://www.vet-power.com and like us. Another reason I am writing is to see if we could link our sites. You have some great articles and I applaud your service to us vets. I am a life member in the VFW.
We are having our first job fair and workshop on the 5th of April here in El Paso. We are doing a pilot program with the training and the educational seminars as a pilot program to see if we can get it into all the bases in the USA. My partner is working on funding from congress to get this off the ground and I think it will be a great advantage to what is out there today. Please let me know if we can link up. Sincerely,
Shannon Jernigan, CPO, USN Retired, DAV, Co Founder of VET-POWER.com
Two DAV Veterans began a new organization to create a one-stop shop for Veterans and Spouses. We were tired of organizations taking money for veterans and mostly pocketing the money. We are totally for the VETERAN. Please go to our web site and check us out. We would like to link our sites because we like what you are doing. Our website is http://www.VET-POWER.com. Please like us and if we can let us know if we can link our sites. As I said, we are just a fledgling start up but we are determined to make it work and provide the veterans with the help they are asking for and needing. I am a life member of the VFW and both of us founders are DAVs.
Great site. Thank you for this effort, and I will do my part to help promote this valuable service.
-Laurie
godbless you