Let's Take Telephone a Vet Tuesday Nationwide!

Last Tuesday, I told you all about One Vet that Wants to Make a Difference.  I told you about his initiative: Telephone a Vet Tuesday.  It's really simple and could save the lives of Veterans, especially those suffering from PTSD.  Today, and each and every Tuesday, pick up the phone and call a Veteran that you know.  Or drop by and visit them.  Or invite them out for a cup of coffee.  Send them a note or card.  It doesn't have to be an expensive endeavor.  It could be a quick ten minute call.  Or a thirty minute visit.  You don't need any fancy words or solutions.  Just an ear that is willing to listen, a heart that cares and a mind to do it!  

This month, June, it PTSD Awareness month.  Please, help take this initiative nationwide!  Visit A Veteran with PTSD. You can see what Telephone a Vet Tuesday means to him and others.  Read a few of his blog posts and see what it means to deal with PTSD.  Give the Vet a word of encouragement.  Then share it on your social media. Email links to your friends.  On Twitter, use the hashtag #TAVT for Telephone a Vet Tuesday and #TWCSL (Together We Can Save Lives.)  

Let your friends and co-workers know!  Share it with your church.  Let June be the month that Telephone a Vet Tuesday becomes a national event! 

 22+ lives a day is 22+ too many to loose! 

 Show them you care!  Let them know they are not in this alone!  Remember, no man left behind!

One Vet Wants to Make a Difference

One Veteran is striving to make a difference for himself and for others who have served and now find themselves suffering with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder.  This Vet is known only as AVetWithPTSD.  He chooses to remain
anonymous, not out of shame, but with the hope that everyone who visits his website and reads his blog, Living with PTSD, can imagine they are hearing from any vet, any where, suffering from this tragic result of combat service. He wants to be a voice crying in the wilderness of ignorance and disinterest for all vets who suffer.  

I've been following this Vet on his blog and on Twitter for several months now.  He's keeping it real, pulling no punches, being as honest and sincere as a man can be.  I've been intending to do a post for some time now.  We've just had Memorial Day, and the Fourth of July looms in the near future.  In between, June is PTSD Awareness Month and that make this the perfect time.

Did you know that the men and women who have kept us safe and free are committing suicide at a rate triple that of the rest of the population?  One out of every five suicides in the U.S. is committed by a veteran!  The official number is 22 a day, but various factors indicate that number is much higher.  The government looks for ways to help, ways to intervene, but we all know how impersonal, how slow and bogged down the government animal operates.

All of these things come together to cause our Vet to issue the call for all of us who live in the benefit of the freedom and safety we enjoy at their sacrifice, to come together and help in a more personal way.  Just letting veterans know we care on a one to one basis.  To know and feel they are not forgotten.  

Together We Can Save Lives

#TWCSL

Tomorrow is Tuesday.  And our Vet calls us to duty.  To contact, connect, visit, call, a vet or vets in your own life each and every Tuesday.  Calling it Telephone A Vet Tuesday, he asks you to make it a habit. 

Spread the word through your social media.  #TAVT  Let your church know. Tell your co-workers.  Contact your local news.  Help this Vet help others!

I have been blessed to have been a hand used by God to save a life on three occasions.  All too often, all the person needs is a lifeline for that moment, that day.  To hear a voice saying they care, they want to listen.  I fully expect everyone who visits this post to work with us to get the word out, to make the calls.  Our Vet does, too!  Compared to what they have done, it's not too much to ask of anyone.

In closing, if there is anyone who is gifted in graphic design who would be willing to help our Vet create a design for T-shirts and posters, please drop by his website and leave him a comment saying you'll donate your talents. 

A Veteran with PTSD

Twitter: @AVetwithPTSD  

Facebook:  Help Support a Veteran Fight PTSD