Sorry Folks!! If you didn’t see the 7 March Edition of CVB’s weekly Connecticut Veterans calendar publication, you’re likely not alone. Our photo may have had some bang bang and boom boom imagery that Google and social media definitely doesn’t appreciate as would a Military Veteran. We sometimes forget how hurtful this is for the aforementioned. So, If you missed out, Here’s the link. Please share it with all your brothers and sisters that Google would prefer it hidden from. There’s a lot of great events that our Veterans deserve to know about.
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.
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