Remember Honor Grounds Coffee?

I don’t know if you remember the review I did on Honor Grounds coffee.  The company donates to veteran’s organizations and is very involved with military support.

Whatever your opinion may be on war, veterans are important people.  I should know, Marc and are both veterans.  We spend a lot of time at the VA hospital because of Marc’s medical issues and, while our situation is difficult, there are so many others there at the hospital that absolutely are facing worse things than they did in Korea, or Nam, or the Gulf.

They are facing overworked doctors, and under-funded medical programs. My personal opinion is that the government should make veteran’s a priority and cut funds in other places, starting with illegal aliens.  I can’t name one illegal alien that shed blood in a war for this country’s freedoms.

:::Deep breaths:::: Anyway, to give you an idea, we have a one year wait to get Marc in to see a neurologist.  Meanwhile his health is deteriorating at an alarming rate and we are having to fight tooth and nail for more than 20% disability. In real terms, 20 percent is 235.00 a month.

But as I said, Marc’s issues are really simple compared to some of the other people there… and there just isn’t the staffing or the funding to handle it all.  I talk to women all the time up there, and have the great joy of praying with them, who have been supporting their husbands through years of fighting for medical treatment and disability payments.  There are guys who come to the hospital by driving their electric scooter- wheelchairs for miles in the heat and in the rain.  Unlike a lot of hospitals, people don’t dress up and go volunteer at the VA.

Anyway, veterans are a largely disrespected, forgotten bunch.  Personally, I don’t care.  There is nothing I need from the VA at the moment and my dislike of all things medical will probably mean that I die rather than go for some snake oil treatment.  Everything worthwhile I got from my military experience happened first in boot camp where I learned to survive, and then in Presidio of Monterey where I learned to be loved.

I admire what Dan and Honor Grounds are doing.  I check the website now and then to keep up with the company’s growth.

Last night I heard from Dan and I thought I woudl pass on what he said:

Hi Marye
Thought I would just drop you a line, but was unsure how to do that on this site. Things are really progressing at Honor Grounds. Our launch into Hannaford Brothers in the New England market went well. We are now promoting the program in Minnesota with Cub Foods. New markets this year will be Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Indiana.

Honor Grounds has been selected for a Congressional Small Business Award. The award will be posted on our website next month along with updated contribution numbers.

Please go to the website and read the Hometown Hero stories. We’ve got quite a few of them now. I’d love to post your husbands. God Bless and I hope all is well at Kettle and Cup.

Dan Boudreau
Honor Grounds Coffee
http://www.honorgrounds.com

Pretty awesome! Keep up with this company, order some coffee from them, and support what they are doing as much as you can.  And if you have some free time and need to have your eyes opened, head over the the nearest VA hospital and just sit and talk with some of the human beings there.   What they gave can never be replaced but it should, at the very least, be honored.

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