Veterans Day: Ways to Support Veterans Year Round [Interview]
With Veteran’s Day upon us, as a nation, it’s a time we thank and appreciate our veterans, but this appreciation should be shown all the time. Our nation’s service members and veterans make unimaginable sacrifices. While recognizing their service and saying thank you is important on days like Veteran’s Day, it is our responsibility to support our nation’s military heroes year-round.
Joel and Maryann spoke with the CEO of Fisher House Foundation, Ken Fisher, who discusses the importance of honoring and supporting our military this Veterans Day and beyond. Fisher House Foundation is best known for its comfort homes where military and veteran families can stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital. These homes are located at military and VA medical centers around the world and have private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, a dining room, and a living room. Ken mentions, “by the end of 2023 we will have built 100 Fisher Houses…but our job is by no means done.” Ken continues, “The sacrifices and burdens are ongoing, and these families are going through, in so many cases, long deployments where the families aren’t home, they have no idea what’s going on with their family member.”
Check out the entire interview and learn more about Fisher House and what we all can do year-round to support our country’s veterans.
Ken Fisher is a business leader and philanthropist with an unwavering dedication to serving those who have served our country. Ken is strongly committed to serving our military community as he carries on his Great Uncle, Zach Fisher’s, legacy as chairman and CEO of Fisher House Foundation. The Foundation is a leading nonprofit serving service members, veterans, and their families through a network of 93 comfort homes where families of ill and injured veterans and military members can stay at no cost while receiving treatment far from home. In addition to these roles, Ken currently serves as co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, co-managing partner at Fisher Brothers, and also served as the chairman of the 2016 Invictus Games. In 2007, Ken was appointed by the Bush Administration to the President’s Commission on Care of America’s Returning Wounded Warriors and has served on several policy boards, in support of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. He has participated in several roundtables in support of current U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Mattis. Ken was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. He also has been honored by several organizations including the United States Marine Corps, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veteran Affairs, HillVets, and the Friends of the Vietnam Memorial.
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