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#veterans day..how we live, how we roll, how we move, with freedom, to speak, move around and exist.

This becomes our challenge..for our Vets, who return often with no job, no homes…we are blessed to know today we dedicate two homes for Mike and Nikki and Jeff and Tara, to live and have family lives with the dream of home ownership of habitat…

Mike and Nikki were in Afghanistan, met as marines, returned to Nikkis birth In Yonkers…they heard about us thru our band leader Will, who lives in the hood..who knew we needed homes for families.  Chosen, great parents, Mike working as an electrician, Nikki a nurse….their lives changed forever in what we call Battle Hill….the battle for Veterans to take it back to help to make it work.

I remember the reverence we had for  our uncles in WW2 , who fought in Anzio and overseas…three brothers of my mother all who served. I remember the day we got the call my cousin had died Michael….who served in Vietnam.  I remember my cousin, a prisoner of war and hero, who came back and started a drivers school…..I remember visiting the graves of all of them, Memorial day..and the remembrances of freedoms….

I also remember being in countries where I felt unsafe…helping to rebuild and returning to freedom, to life and love.

With that in mind, we celebrate every veteran today.

Ivan and his family

Mike and his family, our next vets applying for homes. we remember Arthur a WW 2 vet who we rehabbed his house in Hurricane Sandy areas….we continue…..

May God bless every vet with a home and a job…may we take no freedom for granted..may the centurions of great faith the bible spoke of lead and love all of us in freedoms and may we remember each one of them and pray for them today….and then act to help them. Please donate to our Vets initaitives today http://www.habitatwc.org

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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A rainy day, but God works..and so don’t our volunteers…these are the days when I see the #retirees helping that amazing things  happen…our HOPES retirees…The biggest exchange of retirees in history is happening…and they love to #volunteer with us..what an honor and a blessing…

Their wisdom, their hands, their sweat equity, like Rich and Lee and Big Tom and Mary and Ron, and Donald, Sue, and Norma..and all the gang..their contribution is invaluable…no question.

With that in mind we continue we celebrate, we honor them, we bless them, we t hank them.

They worked in the rain today..on two #Vets families…homes today..two marines who served in harms ways…

What an honor to see them work so hard for #Veterans families…what an honor it is to write about them.

Please contribute to our cause, more homes await our rehabbing them..for the sake of lives, neighborhoods and the American way!--