Resources For Troops, Veterans and Their Families

"We don't have to turn to our history books for heroes. They're all around us."

President Reagan

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

Benjamin Disraeli

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

Arthur Ashe

"If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly… But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought , and have to choose, to be human at all … why then, perhaps we must stand fast a little--even at the risk of being heroes."

St. Thomas Moore in A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

"True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."

English Proverb

""It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."

General Norman Schwarzkopf

"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise the hero sees both diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

" We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."

President Reagan

"Who is a hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend."

The Talmud

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Bob Dylan

"When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" …My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences… Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

Christopher Reeve

"When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too."

John Leguizamo

"Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men."

Thomas Carlyle

"If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes."

Mark Twain

"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."

Louis Pasteur

"I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel."

Florence Nightingale

The USO

The USO provides essential services that support not only our GIs around the world, but also their families left behind at home. Its celebrity entertainment tours deliver America’s brightest stars directly to the Front to cheer the troops. They hand out pre-paid phone cards and care packages of hard-to find personal items to embarking GIs. [...]

The White House Commission on Remembrance

The White House Commission on Remembrance was established by Congress as an independent government agency. The Commission encourages Americans to honor the sacrifices of America’s fallen and the families they left behind. It promotes acts of remembrance throughout the year and asks Americans to pay our debt of gratitude in [...]

The Armed Forces Foundation

The Armed Forces Foundation’s programs provides financial support, career counseling, housing assistance, and recreation therapy to members of our military community including active military, reservists, retired military and their loved ones.
http://www.armedforcesfoundation.org

Blue Star Mothers of America Inc.

Blue Star Mothers are mothers who now have, or have had, children honorably serving in the military. They are a non-partisan, non-political service organization supporting each other and their children while promoting patriotism. Two services of note:

The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Committee has prepared a Guide to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This 16-page document includes [...]

Military.com

Military.com seeks to help the 30 million Americans with military affinity stay connected and informed. Today, they are the largest military and veteran membership organization with over 10 million members. Military.com’s membership is free and connects servicemembers, military families and veterans to all the benefits of service: government benefits, scholarships, discounts, lifelong friends, mentors, [...]

Fisher House

The Fisher House™ program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America’s military in their time of need. Because members of the military and their families are stationed worldwide and must often travel great distances for specialized medical care, Fisher House™ Foundation donates “comfort homes,” built on the grounds of major military and VA medical [...]

Cell Phones For Soldiers

Cell phone for soldiers Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to turn old cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas in 2008. To do so, Cell Phones for Soldiers expects to collect 15,000 cell phones each month through a network of more than 3,000 collection sites [...]

T.A.P.S. – Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors

The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc. (TAPS) was founded by families who had lost a loved one in the line of duty. T.A.P.S. seeks to fill gaps in support once the official casualty case file was closed by finding and providing private sector support and the help of peers who have the empathy and [...]

Operation Christmas Tree

Operation Christmas Tree seeks to send a ‘bit of home’ during the holiday season to our Troops. This consisted of one standard size Christmas tree. Operation Christmas Tree is a yearly project until our troops are home. This grass roots organization will help make the holiday season brighter for those who are away from [...]

Disabled American Veterans

Disabled American Veterans is an organization of disabled veterans who are focused on building better lives for disabled veterans and their families. The organization accomplishes this goal by
providing free assistance to veterans in obtaining benefits and services earned through their military service. It is fully funded through its membership dues and public contributions. It is [...]

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