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As each state begins to relax the restrictions related to the spread of COVID-19, I look out across the nation at our Veteran business owners, the first-responder community, and American patriots in general, and I see a courageous group that has held together and stood together throughout these past few difficult months.  We have all experienced loss.  Some of us have lost our jobs, some of us have lost our businesses, some of us have lost people dear to us.  

As a combat Persian Gulf War Veteran, I can say that our community of Veterans understands loss. Many of us understand the price of freedom as we have watched The flag draped over the casket of a brother or sister in arms. During Memorial Day I take time to remember those in my family and those with whom I served who are no longer with us. 

I wanted to share the story of my cousin, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, of England.  Cousin ADM Ramsay fought bravely in WWII and was a leader during the famous Allied extraction effort known as Dunkirk, and the Admiral for the Allied invasion of Normandy.  Before the invasion of Normandy he stated ‘We shall require all the help that God can give us & I cannot believe that this will not be forthcoming.’ ADM Ramsay trusted God and served with honor the remainder of the War. 

In a cruel turn of fate, just one short year after winning one of the most important victories in the history of  liberty by defeating the evil Nazi empire, ADM Ramsay, my cousin, passed away in a plane crash leaving him with the title of The Forgotten Hero of World War II.  His story is not truly forgotten as it lives on in our family history, and now as I share it, it can live on through each of you. 

Decades later, on 12 October, 2000, an explosion on board the USS Cole took the lives of 17 service members.  Had that explosion happened just one year earlier, I quite possibly could have been of those victims.  Determined to never let those 17 members become “forgotten” like my cousin, Sir ADM Ramsay, I honor their sacrifice during this, and every, Memorial Day weekend.  Any chance I get I attend the Memorial for the USS Cole which now enters its 18th year.

There is no way to repay or bring back those heroes who have fallen or friends and family that we have lost. For many of us during this time we think of those who served alongside us and who have lost their lives not only to the enemy, but to their own hands.  They are just as much a casualty of war as was my cousin Sir ADM Ramsay, or the 17 on the USS Cole.  

It is healthy and enriching to grieve and honor our heroes for their service and dedication.  Their legacy has shown me the way and they inspire me everyday to overcome life‘s struggle.  I honor their sacrifice and willingness to give it all up for the sake of freedom. 

This Memorial Day, as America looks for the courage to reopen for business, I ask all freedom loving Veterans who with honor remember their oath, to join with me and wear your dog tags.  We will wear them for freedom, not for fashion.  It will serve as a reminder to every American as to why we fought.  Hopefully, seeing our tags will inspire others to stand and fight now to reclaim what we have lost over the past few months.  The courage and the resolve of the Veteran is needed now more than it has ever been.   

If you are reading this and you are not a Veteran, but you have the tags of one who has fallen or a relative who passed, I encourage you to put them on this weekend and join us.  It isn’t stolen valor if it’s intended to honor the valor of the man or women who wore the tags.  Honor your loved ones by resurrecting their spirit of service this Memorial Day 2020. 

This weekend, as we wear our tags, share our spirit, and remember those who have fallen, let us also remember that we are not a nation of red states and blue states.  To be sure, we are a nation of red and blue, but those colors are joined with white to represent the greatest nation on earth.  Let’s come together to celebrate and to work together to restore that greatness. 

Not for Fashion for freedom! 

In America and for the world! 

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During the 2016 Presidential race I decided to set aside most of my other professional endeavors and hit the road to lead the Vets for Trump campaign movement.  Working on the front lines at rallies and behind the scenes in organizing and creating activism, I did everything in my own personal power to help Donald Trump get elected.

Why?

Last Tuesday is why.  On March 5, now President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order called the “National Initiative to Empower Veterans and End Veterans Suicide.”  This is addressing the single most devastating issue in America today; the abandonment of those who have served in our armed forces and allowing them to slip into such an abyss of loneliness that they feel the only rational choice is to take their own life. 

The President said in signing the order “To every veteran, I want you to know that you have an entire nation of more than 300 million people behind you.  You will never be forgotten. We are with you all the way.”

In 2016 we were able to mobilize Veterans to come out and support Donald Trump because we sensed that he was the first candidate from either party to mean it when he said he cared about Veterans and the failed system of Healthcare being managed through the Veteran’s Administration.

Our support made a difference.  Veterans made the difference in electing Donald Trump over Hilary Clinton, a woman who stood at the flag draped caskets of fallen heroes after Benghazi and lied to a nation about the circumstances of their death.

Every politician who runs for office says that they “support our troops” and that they “want to make sure that every veteran gets the care they need.”  Every politician promises it and every politician, even those who have served in the armed forces, ignores it once they get into office.

President Trump is the first President to step forward and try to make a real change.

This Executive Order comes in behind a previous Order issued in January of 2018.  Taken together, these two Orders provide an opportunity and a directive for real progress to be made in providing holistic care for our service men and women.

I am one of the founding members of the Non-Profit collaboration #END27.  That number is the minimum number of suicides our research indicates happen every day among those who serve, or have served, in our armed forces.  These are people who risked their lives deliberately in order to help protect the life of every American, regardless of their race, religion, economic status, political beliefs, or anything else of which you can imagine.

Then they end up losing their own life at their own hand.

As a Service Connected Disabled Veteran, I have been inside the system myself and I have been inside it with my brothers and sisters who have served.  I have watched the bureaucracy operate within a culture of inefficiency.  Previous administrations have paid lip service to reforming this culture but when the time comes for real action and reform, the status quo has “trumped” the willingness to change.  Now, hopefully, there is a new “Trump card.”

The Veteran’s Administration gets all the attention because they are the Federal Agency responsible.  It is always easy to focus people’s view on a single, large object.  The truth is that at the State level everywhere across the country the needs of Veterans are also being ignored.  When our organization talks about the need for holistic care, we are talking in part about the full range of treatments and support groups and activities that need to be in place for service men and women.  We are also talking, however, about how every unit of government at every level needs to be stepping up in support.

This action by President Trump needs to be a call to every member of the military, past and present, to get engaged and show support for him in the next election.  He is the only President to this point to take a stand to help us.  There is absolutely no reason, none, to assume that anyone who might replace him would continue with his efforts.

While people might say they care about us, their interest can be hard to hold.  Witness the reporter from CNN who right after the President’s announcement of the new Executive Order, stepped in to ask a question about Michael Cohen.  Attention being paid to Veteran issues rarely survives the next news cycle.

The most universally recognized symbol of human suffering may well be depiction of the Pieta, that moment when Mother Mary is shown to be holding the lifeless body of her son, Jesus.  Every day, there are approximately 27 non-depicted events of still more human suffering.  They are those of men and women, alone and without hope, doing to themselves what an enemy combatant failed to do.

Nobody is carving a sculpture for them.  Nobody is putting oil to canvass for them.  There is work to do.  Let’s get started.  Let’s support our President and his initiative #PREVENTS and let’s come together to #END27 today!

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Now, as an expert in business systems and Veteran housing, with over four generations of family involved in real estate, Joshua is an experienced and creative housing crisis problem-solver.

In addition to 16 years of grassroots, faith-based, and nonprofit service,  Joshua founded Vets For Trump in 2016 to insure the Veteran Voice was heard. In fighting the homeless housing crisis Joshua’s contributions started by volunteering as a Project Manager with the 2011 Virginia Beach Extreme Home Makeover project.

Continuing as Co-Founder of Veterans Homefront whose team was honored as a key instrument in the 100 day governor challenge in 2014.  This success allowed Virginia recognition to be the only one to reach functional zero in Veteran Homelessness.  Most recently Joshua was honored to be designated as Chairman of the Veterans For Trump Coalition growing with his team the largest Veteran Coalition seen since JFK around a President.

Joshua spends his days speaking to business owners, congressmen  and women, cabinet members and their policy makers alike.  Working with the Vets For Trump team he maintains communication with 500,000 grassroots Veterans asking for change in their backyard through numerous Social Media outlets and websites.  Alongside 2nd District Congressman Scott Taylor Joshua looks to create jobs supporting the DOD as well as our Veteran Communities. As a Bio-Technology innovator Joshua continues on his track for PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology working on projects in B.C.I (Brain Computer Interface).

As a father of three young boys, Joshua believes in modeling philanthropy and has devoted his time to creating housing solutions across the country. He hopes to set an example, for both his sons and others in the community, by establishing a legacy of Veteran housing assistance, Veteran Activism, Technology and Social Integration.

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Pete Hegseth is first a Patriot, Second an OathKeeper, Thirdly a Combat Veteran and fourthly a Media knight who has stood steady through such a tumultuous onslaught against our community over the years.  It is in no small part through his courage to stand against the tide he helped to  lay the groundwork for the Veterans For Trump Coalition to gain such momentum.  Had the Concerned Veterans of America not made it a point to educate, expand and unify the Veteran Vote I personally do not believe that the flame which ignited the nation would have burned so brightly in the beginning of it all.  We all made it our focus and mission to ensure the Veteran Voice was heard across this great nation of ours.  By keeping the Veteran cause at the forefront of the presidential debates we maintained the narrative of America first and her servants in the military community as the heroes they are.  I want to personally say Thank You Pete Hegseth for standing in the gap and holding the line while your reinforcements were on their way! JM

Pete Hegseth Interviews Joshua Macias at the Mike Pence event @ Founders Inn.

Pete Hegseth Interviews Joshua Macias at Mike Pence event

Article By : Pete Hegseth | FOXNEWS

“Today, on November 11, America pauses to thank our veterans for their service to our nation. The freedoms we enjoy in this country—which are the exception to the rule in human history—were literally purchased by men and women of all generations who have courageously worn the uniformed cloth of our country.

We live free because warriors—and then veterans—have selflessly served our nation in dangerous places.

THE FOUR THINGS PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP SHOULD FOCUS ON FIRST

At the very least, make sure to use this Veterans Day to honor and thank a veteran in your life.

Veterans Day is about honoring veterans, not politics. But we also cannot ignore that our nation’s policies impact the way we empower, and care for, our veterans. We have failed our military and veterans too often over the past eight years.

That said, the current state of our country for military members, and our veterans, is disappointing at best, and dangerous at worst.

At the Defense Department—the government’s largest department—deep spending cuts, failure to modernize our weapons, and utter strategic drift have created a readiness and morale crisis that makes America far too vulnerable.

At the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA)—the second largest federal department—a waiting list scandal exposed a corrosive, bloated, and unaccountable bureaucracy that is very good at serving itself—but not good at serving veterans.

On both fronts, thankfully, I believe a new era dawns. On the campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump made both rebuilding our military and fixing the VA two of his signature issues.

President-elect Trump is poised to do the same. President-elect Trump has pledged to get rid of the disastrous defense sequester, invest in long-overdue future military technologies, grow the ranks and numbers of ships and aircraft, and repeal stifling rules of engagement that handcuff our troops.

In just a few years, the posture of our military could look much different—ensuring America both deters aggression and can swiftly defeat enemies.

At the VA, President-elect Trump has pledged to “clean house”—an aggressive mandate veterans have been clamoring for. He has vowed to choose an aggressive VA secretary, and empower that leader to swiftly fire VA employees who have failed veterans. This will mean confronting the VA unions, as well as the VA bureaucracy; something Trump has unapologetically said he would do. Moreover, President-elect Trump has vowed to empower veterans to choosetheir healthcare—either from VA facilities or from a private physician. When veterans can choose, then VA must compete and is incentivized to treat veterans like customers, not numbers. It’s about time.

Veterans Day is about honoring veterans, not politics. But we also cannot ignore that our nation’s policies impact the way we empower, and care for, our veterans. We have failed our military and veterans too often over the past eight years.

My sincere believe is that President-elect Trump will muster the courage, leadership, and clarity of purpose to ensure America brings back “peace through strength” with our military posture and the enacts real reform at the VA.

It’s the least we can do for our warfighters.

Pete Hegseth is the former CEO of Concerned Veterans for America and the former executive director of Vets for Freedom. A Fox News contributor, he is an infantry officer in the Army National Guard and has served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.  He is the author of “In the Arena” and serves on the Advisory Board for United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI).” 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/11/pete-hegseth-life-for-our-veterans-and-our-military-could-be-much-different-soon.html

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For me as I reflect on the past 90 days for certain it would be my most recent speech on a Veterans perspective of our SOTU. As I was opening in Manassas, Virginia for a rally in front of five thousand people. I was able to share all my passion revolving Veteran Service needs and it’s definition and correlation to why I was there. For those who have messaged me for this speech this post is one of three which will highlight my speech that night.

“Right now times are tough and we need to be encouraged I look at the dollar Bill and read In God We Trust along with the Photo of our First President General George Washington. Just 45mins from here, above his tomb. It reads the “remains of General George Washington.” He wanted history to recall him as a General, a military leader and with it the epitome of sacrifice. At this time of year; along with his wife, they endured bitter, cold, hardship, and shortages of food as, they braved the elements. It was a hard; hard, difficult life. Today, the service members of our country face their challenges, perhaps not with the same degree of hardship, as George Washington, but by all means, with the same emotional strain.” – Joshua Macias 12/4/2015

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