Giving Thanks to those, who will not be home for Thanksgiving, by supporting Wreaths Across America Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery Middletown Event in their honor, means so much to those who are deployed, to veterans, and to their families.
https://wreathsacrossamerica.org/ct0028p
Please sponsor wreaths for fallen heroes, to be placed at the State Veterans Cemetery on December 15. Wreaths are $15 each.
I am not a veteran. I am a member of the Civil Air Patrol, the United States Air Force Auxiliary. But in 1991, personal loss brought me to a place I never left.
Over two decades later, that loss led me to the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut, where I took on the coordination of Wreaths Across America — which grew into the largest and fastest growing veterans program in the state. I didn’t do it for recognition. I did it for them.
In 2016 I founded the Connecticut Veterans Bulletin. Not because I served, but because I believe those who did deserve to be honored, connected, and kept alive.
Twenty-two veterans die by suicide every day. I knew about that number before it became a hashtag. I knew it personally, long before anyone was talking about it.
This publication exists because that number is unacceptable. Because every veteran in Connecticut deserves to know someone gives a damn.
That someone is me.