Mission:
Our organization provides support to our active duty service members, veterans, and Gold Star families. We support each other and our children while promoting patriotism.
What We Do:
Events
- PTSD Seminar- Post Traumatic Winning (free for the community)
- Holiday Benefit Dance (every Veteran was given a gift)
- Flag Retirement Ceremony (over 100 flags were retired)
- Banding Together for Blue Star Mothers benefit for Stop Soldier Suicide (raised $30,000)
- Stop Soldier Suicide benefit dance/tricky tray (raised over $13,000)
- Vietnam Veteran pinning ceremonies
Volunteer
- Wreaths Across America wreath laying 2021-2024
- Cape Fear Honor Flight 2021-2024
- Irreverent Warrior Hike 2022-2023
- American Legion Post 543 Summer Baseball League
- Coast Guard vs. First Responders Baseball games
- Coast Guard Birthday celebration
- Veterans Day events
- Memorial Day events
- Golf outings
- Hosted WAA traveling exhibit
- Operation North State
- Military Appreciation Day of Fishing
- Southport Flag Lowering 2022-2024
Fundraisers
- Holding fundraisers allows us to raise funds to support our active duty service members, Veterans & Gold Star families.
- Holiday Dance
- 50/50 raffles
- Super Bowl Football pools each year
- March Madness pools
- Peacecycle
- Banding Together for Blue Star Mothers fundraiser for Stop Soldier Suicide
- Wreaths Across America
- Holiday raffle
- Rocking Horse Raffle
- Blue Star clock raffle
- Shot tray raffle
- Stop Soldier Suicide Dance & Tricky Tray
Donate
- Care Package Send Off– Spring 2022 & Dec. 2022
- We made a $1,000 donation to Cape Fear Honor Flight toward the purchase of personalized flags for the Veterans
- We are donated $250 to the Ft. Campbell Moms Group to be used for items to support troops training in the area.
- We sponsored a rest stop during the Irreverent Warrior Hike in June 2022.
- Donated $30,000 to the Stop Soldier Suicide organization. They are a 501(c)3 charity.
- Operation at Ease – gift cards donated to visiting Military families
- Made blankets for veterans
- Donated to Tunnel to Towers
- Donated to Veterans Memorial Reef
- Donated to Step Up For Soldiers Mud Run
Grants
We seek out grants to cover our expenses. Below are some of the grants we have received:
- Walmart
- Blue Star Mothers of America
- Focus Broadband
- BEMC
- St. James Service Club
- Publix
We have raised over $43,000 for Stop Soldier Suicide.
Thank you for all of your contributions.
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Banding Together 4 Cape Fear Blue Star Mothers Event
Thank you so much for your support & donations