Yellow Ribbon Fund: real support for troops & families

Hey, the Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America helps vets on one level, but a number of small groups focus on other needs not addressed by anyone.

The Yellow Ribbon Fund's mission is to "Welcome Our Injured Service Members Home." They do this by supplying free rental cars to family members, (1,000 in four years), free cab vouchers, hotels, apartments, job mentoring and internships, and free tickets to cultural and sporting events.

A new program, The Family Caregiver Program, helps the wives and mothers of the injured. Stephen Colbert has raised over $250,000 for the Yellow Ribbon Fund through sales of his Wrist Strong Bracelets.

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What would be better by far than any private program or charity organization's efforts would be the generous funding by the federal government of veteran's services. The debt the republic owes to its service personnel should be paid out of the US Treasury in the form of medical care, employment and a guaranteed retirement. Historically, the short-changing of veterans after the wars are fought has been one of the most shameful and long chapters of our history. We must do better.