Helping Military Families at Walter Reed Hospital

Helping Military Families at Walter Reed Hospital - A Huntsville Homecoming - Honor1

Helping military families at Honor One or Products For Good was a great event on Veterans Day. And one that supports our Honor One, Help Many mission to help hospitalized veterans, firefighters and police. All our profits go to the best charities to donate specializing in helping veteran families and who have little to no expense like Aleethia,  a veterans support organization who take hospitalized vets out of Walter Reed VA Hospital to celebrate life.

Huntsville, VA, is a very patriotic town and the perfect backdrop for this vets helping vets event. There are a group of Vietnam veterans, Marines and Army men and woman who sponsor this military event on Veteran's Day. Back in the 1970's they came home to a terrible welcome. They wanted to make sure that our current vets come home to a heroes welcome. What they discovered was that if you return with your military unit then you are well received. If you are a wounded veteran, however, you circumvent the system and have little to no welcome at all.

So, each year, they invite 75 wounded veterans to a Huntsville Homecoming Heroes Welcome complete with military parade, over 300 Harley Davidson riders, celebrations for veterans and veteran family support. There are over five days of military events. After the first hour of the first day one Iraqi veteran proclaimed, "If the festivities ended right now this would still be the best day of my life." A great testament to veterans helping veterans.

As a veterans support organization, we were asked to give out a military gift coin thanking each service man and woman for their dedication and military service. While Lane Ostrow was giving out the gift coins one veteran in the back was overly excited. When asked why, he said that he was one of the soldiers who discovered the coins in Iraq. He was also surprised to hear that they were used in our military shadowbox coin case assembled by disabled workers. He didn't know what had happened to them but to see them at the Huntsville Homecoming was a wonderful way to participate in helping military families.