COMMENTARY From the NATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICES DIRECTOR JOHN KLEINDIENST I Start acting to honor veterans am proud and humbled to be able community veterans memorial or to share in the celebration of DAV’s cemetery, help a local veteran with centennial anniversary with you this some home improvements, visit a year. What’s more, I believe our best is veterans nursing home in your area or yet to come. visit patients at the nearest VA hospital. Over the past century, veterans have And we can always use volunteer drivers seen ups and downs. We have fought for our DAV Transportation Network— together on the battlefield, and we have simply visit www.dav.la/1if to learn more fought together on the and sign up to help get homefront to make sure local veterans to and There are veterans get the benefits from their medical countless ways appointments. they earned. We served together in uniform, and These are just a few you can achieve today, we serve our suggestions, but many [100 Acts of fellow veterans right here needs exist throughout in our own communities. the veteran community— Honor]— no act I invite you to take and you can help be the is too small to ownership of this one to fulfill them. help make a momentous occasion. We want to hear about Make it yours by difference in the your efforts, too, as we participating in DAV’s life of a veteran. march together toward a 100 Acts of Honor century of service. Tell us challenge. Each of you about your experience. has special gifts and talents you can Let us know what you and your fellow share with the veteran community, members are doing and how your so let’s ring in 100 years by putting actions are impacting the lives of them to good use. veterans and their families. One hundred is a big number, but Email us at VAVS@dav.org or post on there are countless ways you can social media. Include #100ActsofHonor achieve it—no act is too small to help on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or make a difference in the life of a veteran. LinkedIn posts, from both your individual Chapters, units, individuals and even and chapter accounts. Show us, and our community groups can get involved in fellow Americans, how important it is to a number of ways. You can clean up a stand up for veterans. 22 DAV MAGAZINE | MARCH/APRIL 2020 | DAV.ORG
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