National Veterans Foundation

Dear Friends:

Today, as our nation honors all who have worn the proud uniform of our armed forces, the NVF’s toll-free “Lifeline” call center is being inundated with a growing number of requests for support and assistance---more than 200 per week, and increasingly, from those returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The NVF is poised to meet this rising wave of need, but to do that, we need your help to reach our $25,000 Veterans Day Fundraising goal.

CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE!

As many of you know, this past July, we launched an needed expansion of our toll-free “Lifeline”---the only non-profit service of its kind for all veterans and their families. We’ve expanded our hours to seven days a week, more than doubled our staff of trained veteran operators, re-designed our interactive website, and launched a national outreach program that is getting our Lifeline number (888-777-4443) in the hands of more veterans and families than ever before---by web, radio, tv, on the street, and everywhere inbetween.

Salin Ebrahamian

11/11/2007

They ride in the humvees or walk patrolling the streets in Iraq or Afghanistan. They have less than a second to determine if the man, the woman, the child standing in their path is a civilian or a human bomb. They have less than a second to decide between life or death… if they are wrong then they either kill an innocent civilian or their own fellow soldier. Having the power to hold the life of an individual in your hands is not a human quality, it is playing God. These soldiers, however, are not playing. This power over life and death does not come without its own heavy burden; they know all too well they are not Gods. They have to live with that decision for the rest of their mortal lives. These young men and women of our military, when in Iraq or Afghanistan, are given a mission, and they do what is necessary to complete the mission. They fight, some die to complete their mission. They kill to live; they kill so they won’t bury another brother or sister. In the battlefield, when bullets and bombs are ripping through the air, there is no politics, there is no right or wrong- there is only one truth, for one to live another must die. They carry the power of life and death over there.

There are a lot of ways you can help the National Veterans Foundation get the word out about the services we provide and the benefits that are available to Veterans.

• Post this banner on your website
• Host a screening of our 20th Anniversary Documentary in your home.
• Distribute this flyer to people and places that work with veterans and their families, or include it with your next newsletter or email-blast.