In a powerful initiative around Veterans Day, Jeremy Stalnecker, Co-Founder of The Mighty Oaks Foundation, is spearheading the #22for22Challenge, a movement aimed at raising awareness and funds to combat the alarming rate of veteran suicides.
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7 Ways to Honor Vets This Memorial Day
Memorial Day is approaching. Are you looking for ways to do more this year to honor those who sacrificed to preserve and protect the freedoms we enjoy? Memorial Day is a day to honor and commemorate the ultimate sacrifice that so many brave men and women have made, so it is certainly a day to pay our respects to these individuals, even if that is in death. Memorial Day is also a day to honor the families of these veterans who are in our communities. There are so many ways to give back even just a little bit of what these veterans have sacrificed for us, and below we provide you with just a few ideas to get you started. We thank the Lord for our vets and their families and hope that they will feel honored, appreciated, and loved this Memorial Day.
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Group Accuses Non-Profit of 'Carpet-Bombing' National Cemeteries by Placing Wreaths across Veterans' Tombstones
The president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation says the group Wreaths Across America is guilty of “carpet-bombing” the country’s 155 national cemeteries with “Christian gang signs.”
The Importance of Trusting God
Yesterday, we identified ways you and I can help people facing the storms of life. Today, let’s identify the enemy behind these storms and the only One more powerful than he is.
'There Is Hope': Karen Pence Promotes Suicide Prevention Effort for Veterans
The Second Lady of the United States recently opened up about her work with PREVENT, a suicide prevention initiative for military veterans.
A Man Who Nearly Died at Pearl Harbor has Been Buried There: An Inspiring Story of Courage that Compels Our Best
More than nine hundred sailors are entombed within the USS Arizona which was sunk during the Pearl Harbor attacks in 1941. The remains of forty-three USS Arizona survivors have been interred there over the years as well. Per his request, an urn containing Bruner’s ashes was placed by divers inside the ship Saturday, the seventy-eighth anniversary of the attack.
Lauren Bruner will be the final person to be interred on the USS Arizona. The last three living survivors plan to be laid to rest with their families.
