Tell us why you support Mission Belonging Since leaving government funding, we’ve run more than 70 Mission Belonging shops and events at military hospitals and in community spaces this year funded not by the DoD, but by the American People. We could not have...
The week of the workshop, my husband and I returned to Maryland from a trip to Florida. It was an exhausting excursion that got us home late Tuesday night. The long drive combined with an invasion of southeastern United States allergens left me tired enough to sleep...
Thank you for the wonderful, overwhelming outpouring of support over the past few weeks. Since posting my announcement, I’ve received so many emails from people who participated in the hospital programs and colleagues who were impacted by them— offering...
It was a chilly day but when I saw my dear friend, April Harris, smiling at me from inside Building 62, home to many Wounded Warriors and their families, I felt warmth. I returned April’s smile, told her how happy I was to see her and basked in the radiance of...
In 2010 I answered an ad for a job at the Walter Reed MWR Arts & Crafts Center on the Forest Glen Annex. In the nine years since, I’ve moved through changes in location and contracts and leadership and employment and job title, expanding the...
In 2016, Staff Sergeant (SSG) Charles Stokes, after losing a custody battle and death of his grandfather, struggled to find purpose/motivation. He described his depression as so extreme that he slept 18 hours each day and still found it challenging to get up in the...
