Homes for Our Troops, a national non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2004. We are strongly committed to helping those who have selflessly given to our country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries since September 11, 2001. It is our duty and our honor to assist severely injured Servicemen and Servicewomen and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a home that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live more independently.

Homes For Our Troops is building a house in Massachusetts,

for SSG Michael Downing. This is an AMAZING story! 

The are holding a ‘Build Brigade’ to build the weather tight shell of the house on

 December 11, 12, 13 in Middleboro, Ma.

They need skilled labor, volunteers, materials etc.

Click Here for all of the information and to sign up or donate!

Let’s get this house built in time for the holidays! 

I’m taking today off,  not because I am a Veteran, but because I am married to one.  In this time in our nation’s history, it’s more important than ever to show our Veteran’s that we support them and that we are thankful for their service.

We all know someone from the Vietnam era who was yelled at, spit on and disrespected because they served their country… 

 ’Not on my watch!’ 

Our generation has the chance to do, what our parents generation didn’t do… Welcome home those who have volunteered to protect this great country of ours!

Today is a day to thank your family members, friends and total strangers for being brave and selfless. Today is a day to celebrate those who made it home and a day to remember those who didn’t!

If you have worn a uniform in service to our country, I can say with my whole heart…

Thank you!

If you’re looking for a way to thank a Veteran, check out these groups and causes.

www.homesforourtroops.org

www.patriotguard.org

www.skipcares.org

www.taps.org

www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com

www.peasegreeters.org

Watch this documentary about some local volunteers who thank our troops as they return home.

The Way We Get By – Trailer from The Way We Get By on Vimeo.

It’s on tonight!

Click here to get more info on where you can see it and when!

And, if I met you overseas as part of my Boston To Baghdad trip, just know that I think about you every day!