Talk Show for and about veterans issues

Can't help it! $25,000 for a talk show that airs once a month? I had to find out about this show.

The live hourlong television show, which airs the third Monday of every month on Contra Costa Television, was developed by the Contra Costa County Veterans Service Office to help highlight issues facing the county's veterans and provide veterans with a platform to share their stories with the community.

Hep. Cable.

The Focus of This Talk Show? America's Heroes Its hosts highlight resources to help veterans.
National Swell
Advancing National Service
by Jenny Shank
January 8, 2015

Hosts Kevin Graves and Nathan Johnson on the set of their talk show, Veterans' Voices.

While most talk shows focus their content on makeovers, celebrity gossip and recipe tips, one special television program in Contra Costa County, Calif., is eschewing these topics and bringing important news to veterans and the families and communities that care about them instead.

Veterans’ Voices, funded by a $25,000 grant from the California Department of Veterans Affairs, airs once a month and provides a forum for discussion about all issues facing veterans. Marine Corps veteran Nathan Johnson and Kevin Graves, regional outreach specialist for the California V.A. serve as the show’s hosts.

Graves’s son, Spc. Joseph Graves, was killed in 2006 while serving in Iraq.

Veterans’ Voices tackles topics like coping with post-combat stress, preventing veteran suicide and supporting veterans’ caregivers. “We can have an actual dialogue about these issues that is straight from the veterans,” Johnson tells the San Jose Mercury News.

The show features special guests who are making a difference in vets’ lives, such as former combat medic Jason Deitch, whose project War Ink documents how veterans express the stories of their service through tattoos.
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