Coalition for Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans

Air Compassion for Veterans‘ first flight on November 30, 2006.	A wounded warrior is transported on an Air Compassion for Veterans flight on Christmas Eve.

Armed Services YMCA: Children of Sailors from the nuclear aircraft carrier, USS Stennis, homebased in Bremerton, WA at YMCA Camp Seymour	A Disabled American Veterans Mobile Clinic

Disability Rights Advocates’ 15th Anniversary Dinner presented an award to Veterans for Common Sense for their participation as organizational plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit on behalf of OIF and OEF veterans with PTSD and TBI.	National Military Family Association hosts Operation Purple Camp for military children.



Operation Homefront volunteers put in a driveway for a Fort Campbell family in Clarksville, Tenn. A mother of a 5-year-old wheelchair-bound daughter asked for help making her home handicap accessible.	Our Military Kids having fun at the circus.

Dennis Celorie and Eric Winke from Return2Work presenting to wounded warriors about the R2W organization at the CBHCO Town Hall Meeting in Concord, MA.	Sesame Workshop: A brother and sister, whose father lost part of his arm in combat, meet Rosita at the Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes launch in April, 2008. Copyright Sesame Workshop 2008.

Swords to Plowshares held their first annual Bay Area Job Fair in September 2008. Over 150 veterans met with over 30 potential employers, which was a huge success.	Children at a TAPS Good Grief Camp release balloons to the sky with messages to their deceased parent attached.

A Vets4Vets Women’s Retreat in Arizona.	VFW Foundation: Military wife Kelly Gray was juggling life with two kids and a third on the way while her husband fought in Iraq. When she got into a car accident, she worried how she would fix the car and pay the bills. VFW Unmet Needs provided a grant to cover the car repairs.