Help Heal Our Vets

Help Heal Our Vets

Help Heal Our Vets is an military organization that supports other military non profits and get the much needed funds to the right people for the right people: Our Veterans.

Truth be told there is far too much red tape and too high salaried executives with many of the larger non-profits these days that it raises large concerns about their effectiveness and ability to deliver on their promises. Help Heal Our Vets (HHOV) is all about putting the funds where their mouth is and ensuring that those deemed responsbile to take their monies must provide evidence that the mony donated is provided to the veterans with photos and documentation to support their claims.

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Where does the HHOV logo come from?

Military artist and designer, Frost Call, was essential in the development of the HHOV logo. Ever since the Red Cross and its founder, Clara Barton, while during the Civil War she witnessed what seemed like an infinite number of soldiers wounded and dyting felt the need to help these men brought in fromn the battlefield. The symbol of the Red Cross would become the central component of the Red Cross and recognized the world over as an organization of healing and care.

Because of the intimate connection between care and our veterans there was a need for the cross to be integrated into the design.

 

The Heart 

The Purple Heart is awarded to members of the armed forces of the U.S. who are wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy and posthumously to the next of kin in the name of those who are killed in action or die of wounds received in action. The heart of our soldiers, the heart to reach out and care for our veterans, the heart to recognize our men and women veterans as people and not second hand people to be thrown away after many years of wear and tear. The heart of our veterans is as sound today as it has ever been and without their sacrifice we as a people would not have endured. The heart found within th HHOV logo is there out of both respect to our veterans and a reminder that we are here for them.

 

Combat Medics

The worn and whethered look of the HHOV logo is purposeful. The Combat Medics that were called into battle to carry the wounded, provide air in the field, under fire, often risj=king both life and limb to enemy fire while delivering medicine, bandages or relief was tantamount to their role in World War 1, 2, Korea and Vietnam. The arm bands worn by our Combat Medics were a distinct look that made them a prized target by the enemy but also identified them as battlefield angels for those who needed help in the most dire of situations. The slightly worn look of the HHOV logo is a testimony and sign of respect to these men that went into harm’s way to help others.

 

Remember that our veterans that have seen combat have had their lives changed and their views, attitudes and how they go about their daily lives is different than those who have never known combat. Everyone needs help and for the men and women that have worn the uniform of the United States military we should be respectful, more understanding and offer assistance where and and when we can. This is jsut part of what HHOV does. With every purchase, donation or even a kind word we can do our part to bring some measure of peace to them and assist them in their lives.

 

Vision Strike Wear Supports Purpleheartfoundation.Org

Vision Strike Wear Supports Purpleheartfoundation.Org

Vision Strike Wear Supports Purpleheartfoundation.Org

Raising PTSD Awareness In June Through Organizational Support Every time a sale for more than $50.00 is generated at Vision-Strike-Wear.Com a percentage of every sale is donated to the Purpleheartfoundation.Org to support their mission and activities related to our men and women in uniform. This is the month that Vision Strike Wear Supports Purpleheartfoundation.Org!

PTSD is too important not to discuss, raise awareness and support when our men and women in uniform past and present need our help the most. Now is our turn to do for them. Their selfless sacrifices we must acknowledge and for many that do not know how to ask we need to help them and provide assistance, information and the proper care they more than definitely deserve and have more than earned.

June is PTSD Awareness Month

June is PTSD Awareness month and there is no better time to get the word out, the message and inform your friends, family members and those you work with about the importance of recognizing what PTSD is, what is does and how it can be treated effectively. This month three brand new PTSD military shirts have been created to spread awareness and when sold the necessary revenue to send to organizations whose mission it is to identify and treat PTSD.

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PTSD Military Awareness Shirts and Designs

Don’t Give Up The Ship PTSD Awareness Shirt

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2000 Yard Marine Stare PTSD Awareness Shirt

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The Soldier May Leave The Valley But the Valley Will Never Leave The Soldier PTSD Awareness Shirt

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Giving Back To The Military Community

Vision-Strike-Wear.Com has received several orders over the 50.00 dollar threshold already this month. Below are the names and links to the variety of military designs and PTSD designs that have been purchased so far. It is important to thank the individuals who feel as you do that PTSD is important and needs to be recognized. Vision-Strike-Wear.Com would like to thank the following customers for their patronage and for supporting June PTSD Awareness Month and their support for the Purpleheartfoundation.org. All these customers participated with their over 50.00 purchases made in the month of June.

Our Donors This Month

Mr Burgess – US Coast Guard Master Chief Petty Officer Rank Shirt VSWA1529_USCG_MCPO

 

 

 

Mr Pease – US NAVY Devil Doc Shirt DEVILDOC

 

 

 

Mr. Powell – US NAVY Tin Can Sailor Shirt vsw020_tincan_sailor_org_thumbnail

 

 

 

Mr Hoard US NAVY – Shellback Shirt VSWA027_Navy_Shellback_v (1)

 

 

 

Ms. Gagnon – US COAST GUARD AMT Aviation Maintenance Technician Shirt vsw379_uscg_amt_thumbnail

 

 

 

Mr Cramer – US NAVY VBSS Shirts VSWA057_Navy_VBSS

 

 

 

Mr Johnson – US NAVY Shellback Court OF Neptune Rex Shirt VSWA146_Shellback_2013

 

 

 

Ms Eystad -USCG – Coast Guard Veteran Shirt VSWA108_USCG_Veteran

 

 

 

Mr Brown – US NAVY Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Lighters vswa052_navy_seabee_thumbnail

 

 

 

Mr. Benton – US NAVY Corpsman Up!

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New supporters helping to raise awareness during PTSD in June month!

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Mr. Brown with his over 50.00 purchase of the VSW NMCB design!

 

 

 

Mr. Doherty with the US Coast Guard and his purchase of the VSW USCGC Northland WMEC-904 Cutter Shirt.

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Mr Richards with a purchase of the USCG Joint Maritime Training Center Coast Guard Shirt from VSW. Thank you sir.

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Help Vision-Strike-Wear.Com Fight PTSD In June

Help Vision-Strike-Wear.Com Fight PTSD In June

June is PTSD Awareness month

Vision-Strike-Wear.Com has for many years been humbled by participating with our active duty men and women in uniform, veterans, prior service through supporting an environment of pride through creativity, designing apparel and items that are worn on the backs of our servicemen and women, designed in collaboration with them and ensuring the highest level of satisfaction and service. Our returning OIF and OEF Veterans with whom VSW began its company designing for we salute for standing up and making Congress know about the effects of PTSD. Vision-Strike-Wear.Com is honored to work with organizations like IAVA.Org and send year round funds to support their efforts.

June is PTSD Awareness month and throughout the month VSW will be supporting causes, non-profits and organizations whose mission it is to bring not only awareness but also find solutions and combating PTSD so our soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen and guardsmen can find the tools and solutions necessary to help with issues related to post traumatic stress.

One such organization, Vision-Strike-Wear.Com, will be supporting through the month of June is the Purple Heart Foundation, a congressional Charted organization founded in 1948  whose mission is to serve and support our veterans.

A percentage of every sale at Vision-Strike-Wear.Com will be donated to this fine organization to support their work helping our American Veterans.

In the modern day of our military never has such an important topic been discussed as the one called PTSD. Vision-Strike-Wear.Com is dedicated to helping and working with many other talented organizations whose firm goal is to help our men and women in uniform both past and present.

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The mud, the trenches, the desolate battlefields and the fighting between hedgerows found throughout France and Europe during the First World War found soldiers battle weary, drowned souls without sparks of a willingness to live and move past the gray and black of artillery pock marked French soil found themselves shell shocked. America has never turned from a fight and since their great grandfathers of old that unified 13 colonies and ultimately fought the British for control of our country, a way of life and ultimately for a preservation of a way of thinking: freedom.

World War I

The shell shocked American doughboys of World War 1 faced the illusion of invincibility as these Yanks traveled to distant European shores and fought a German adversary they had not experienced since Washington crossed a river and cleverly destroyed the Hessian mercenaries during the American War For Independence. The doughboys and later the Marines found a well prepared, modern German army, and for years experienced the devastating effects of war that ultimately would lead to stress, weariness and stress disorders that would haunt them for the rest of their lives. Their victory in Europe came at substantial cost.    

World War II

1000 Yard Stare Tom Lea

1000 Yard Stare Tom Lea

World War 2 came largely on the heels of the First World War and America found herself back in Europe fighting as we all know, Germany and the Third Reich, but also her Axis Ally in Japan and their expansive desires for controlling the South Pacific from Japan to Australia and as far away as Hawaii. US Army soldiers from the Normandy invasion to the ultimate taking of Berlin fought over the same ground their fathers had battled.

They battled in the skies with bomb laden B-17’s on daylight bombing missions with very little hope of return to safe shores, sailing across the Atlantic seeking out German U-Boats who were successfully for many years sending millions of tons of merchant tonnage to the ocean bottom. Then came the Army and Marines as they fought in dense jungles, intense heat and often without proper food and supplies against a determined Japanese Imperial Army on orders from their leadership to fight to the last man.

Battle Fatigue

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US Army Out of the Valley…

It was during one of these US Marine island hopping battles, The Battle of Peleliu, when then Marine correspondent Tom Lea, created a piece pf art that would become the icon for battle fatigue experienced daily by our fighting soldiers. Coined as the 1000 yard stare, this artwork Lea created became the stark reminder of the stress and disconnection to reality, the giving up on caring and the need to distance oneself from the experiences on the battlefield.

Like the image taken from the top of Mount Suribachi with Marines and a Corpsman hoisting the US flag over a war torn battlefield, the 1000 yard stare would become important as the image of a battle fatigued “America’s Greatest Generation” would have to experience as they returned to home.

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The Forgotten War

Korea and its generation of American soldiers would find a different climate, a different nemesis as they battled for control of a peninsula fighting in a Civil War. The frozen hills and valleys of the Korean War produced its own element of battle weariness and stress.

Named the Forgotten War, Korea and its fighting, its threats, and the demands placed upon our soldiers was no different than their brothers in WW2 and though their sacrifice was just as great when fighting the incredible numbers of Chinese Communist troops the severity of their stress and mental anguish was no less severe. The Forgotten War was not forgotten in the minds of our Korean Veterans.

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US Navy Don’t Give up the Ship!

The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War, the Ten Thousand Day War, ushered in a fight in Southeast Asia that would pit the United States against a Russian backed Communist North Vietnam whose desire it was to control the southern half of Vietnam and claim it. Like Korea, America found itself battling Communism once again and fighting to restore freedom and unification of a country torn by Civil War.

The jungles of Vietnam where Army soldiers and Marines fought in densely populated jungles, in cities like Hue City, in places not heard of before on American televisions reporting on the war.

Places like Da Nang, Long Binh, Khe Sanh, Phu Bai, Dak To were soon filling American living rooms with stories of battle, casualties not previously reported and for the first time an American population no longer supportive of our troops.

American Warriors of the Vietnam War

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Our American Vietnam Veterans returned home to a place that was hostile towards our soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen and guardsmen. Placing the blame of the war for the first time on the soldiers asked by its leadership to go to an unknown country, to fight and die in preservation of American interests abroad were heaped upon our soldiers already battle fatigued by their involvement in this unpopular war.

Like the dedicated Americans they are they found ways to deal with these issues, some keeping the issues internalized, never to be discussed, others turning to business or artistic endeavors or projects aimed at keeping these issues at bay. Nevertheless, our American warriors of the Vietnam War also experienced the same battle fatigue their fathers experienced and issues of veteran suicide began to get some exposure to the balance of the American population.

Under prepared and without the ability to deal with the mental issues our veterans were undergoing, the Veteran’s Administration was incapable of identifying and diagnosing the mental states of our returning veterans which even to this day is still a subject that alludes them, and something they have been incapable of helping our veterans with.

 

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