https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-august-2026/ 2026-08-08T06:20:42+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/August2026-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg August2026-Header-NCHV https://youtu.be/wRkhdMJZO6A https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/August2026-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Wow! August already!  For you, this may mean one more month of summer vacation, or anticipation of school starting, or another month of hot weather to ensure plants and animals stay healthy, or simply the emotional shift from Summer to https://www.youtube.com/embed/wRkhdMJZO6A https://img.youtube.com/vi/wRkhdMJZO6A/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Wow! August already!  For you, this may mean one more month of summer vacation, or anticipation of school starting, or another month of hot weather to ensure plants and animals stay healthy, or simply the emotional shift from Summer to https://www.youtube.com/embed/BQKrJGmrX_Q https://img.youtube.com/vi/BQKrJGmrX_Q/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Wow! August already!  For you, this may mean one more month of summer vacation, or anticipation of school starting, or another month of hot weather to ensure plants and animals stay healthy, or simply the emotional shift from Summer to https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-july-2026/ 2026-07-17T18:46:02+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/July2026-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg July2026-Header-NCHV https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/candid-seal-platinum-2024-150x150.png https://youtu.be/BKNWVL0LA80 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/July2026-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, First, may you have a powerful July 4th as you reflect on God’s goodness to America for 250 years, and as you contemplate the next 250 years of American history.  Later in this newsletter, Diving Deeper entitled “A Hopeful https://www.youtube.com/embed/BKNWVL0LA80?si=e8DqlTDhj9TyUc46 https://img.youtube.com/vi/BKNWVL0LA80?si=e8DqlTDhj9TyUc46/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, First, may you have a powerful July 4th as you reflect on God’s goodness to America for 250 years, and as you contemplate the next 250 years of American history.  Later in this newsletter, Diving Deeper entitled “A Hopeful https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-june-2026/ 2026-05-30T14:56:40+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/June-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg June-Header-NCHV https://youtu.be/UdbF4F2KSno https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/June-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, As with so many of you, we recently and reverently observed Memorial Day 2026.  Several of our NCHV staff spoke at regional Memorial Day commemorations.  It was a bittersweet day to mourn our Fallen Veterans in many ways, but also a https://www.youtube.com/embed/UdbF4F2KSno https://img.youtube.com/vi/UdbF4F2KSno/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, As with so many of you, we recently and reverently observed Memorial Day 2026.  Several of our NCHV staff spoke at regional Memorial Day commemorations.  It was a bittersweet day to mourn our Fallen Veterans in many ways, but also a https://www.youtube.com/embed/IaDUHKZH7l8 https://img.youtube.com/vi/IaDUHKZH7l8/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, As with so many of you, we recently and reverently observed Memorial Day 2026.  Several of our NCHV staff spoke at regional Memorial Day commemorations.  It was a bittersweet day to mourn our Fallen Veterans in many ways, but also a https://www.youtube.com/embed/H0uVTu_16NY https://img.youtube.com/vi/H0uVTu_16NY/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, As with so many of you, we recently and reverently observed Memorial Day 2026.  Several of our NCHV staff spoke at regional Memorial Day commemorations.  It was a bittersweet day to mourn our Fallen Veterans in many ways, but also a https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-may-2026/ 2026-05-03T16:02:24+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/May2026-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg May2026-Header-NCHV https://youtu.be/qD8zHwZalZI https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/May2026-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In our leadership training at NCHV, we emphasize the leader axiom “Honor the Fallen and Lead the Living.” This month of May is the time we as a Nation “Honor the Fallen,” particularly poignant because of the 250th https://www.youtube.com/embed/qD8zHwZalZI?si=vAKBjFDDpgESiHFr https://img.youtube.com/vi/qD8zHwZalZI?si=vAKBjFDDpgESiHFr/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In our leadership training at NCHV, we emphasize the leader axiom “Honor the Fallen and Lead the Living.” This month of May is the time we as a Nation “Honor the Fallen,” particularly poignant because of the 250th https://www.youtube.com/embed/bFRteX1dCx4 https://img.youtube.com/vi/bFRteX1dCx4/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In our leadership training at NCHV, we emphasize the leader axiom “Honor the Fallen and Lead the Living.” This month of May is the time we as a Nation “Honor the Fallen,” particularly poignant because of the 250th https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-april-2026/ 2026-04-06T18:37:28+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/April2026-Header-scaled.jpg April2026-Header https://youtu.be/gf2hlxEXmVU https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/April2026-Header-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  My “Granny” was a special lady, packed with love, acceptance, and great wisdom.  Her “maxims” remain with me today fifty years after her passing.  One of these maxims was “Many Hands Make Light Work.” This is https://www.youtube.com/embed/gf2hlxEXmVU https://img.youtube.com/vi/gf2hlxEXmVU/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  My “Granny” was a special lady, packed with love, acceptance, and great wisdom.  Her “maxims” remain with me today fifty years after her passing.  One of these maxims was “Many Hands Make Light Work.” This is https://www.youtube.com/embed/r1AIkOa0zs8 https://img.youtube.com/vi/r1AIkOa0zs8/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  My “Granny” was a special lady, packed with love, acceptance, and great wisdom.  Her “maxims” remain with me today fifty years after her passing.  One of these maxims was “Many Hands Make Light Work.” This is https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-march-2026/ 2026-04-07T16:23:18+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/March2026-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg March2026-Header-NCHV https://youtu.be/gf2hlxEXmVU https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/March2026-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  Most of us in America have navigated a challenging winter.  This was certainly true with the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm.  Yet now we are experiencing the miracle of NEW LIFE—birds returning, https://www.youtube.com/embed/gf2hlxEXmVU https://img.youtube.com/vi/gf2hlxEXmVU/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  Most of us in America have navigated a challenging winter.  This was certainly true with the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm.  Yet now we are experiencing the miracle of NEW LIFE—birds returning, https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZIFUv4PZPMc https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZIFUv4PZPMc/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  Most of us in America have navigated a challenging winter.  This was certainly true with the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm.  Yet now we are experiencing the miracle of NEW LIFE—birds returning, https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-february-2026/ 2026-04-07T16:27:19+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Feb-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg Feb-Header-NCHV https://youtu.be/su-Ldc5xIBc https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Feb-Header-NCHV-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  No doubt you have had to PERSEVERE through a weather challenged January.  We certainly have – snow, ice, mud, frozen water lines – and yet, as the U.S. Postal Service would say,” the mail must go through.”  So it https://www.youtube.com/embed/su-Ldc5xIBc https://img.youtube.com/vi/su-Ldc5xIBc/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  No doubt you have had to PERSEVERE through a weather challenged January.  We certainly have – snow, ice, mud, frozen water lines – and yet, as the U.S. Postal Service would say,” the mail must go through.”  So it https://www.youtube.com/embed/RlcNMu331FE https://img.youtube.com/vi/RlcNMu331FE/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  No doubt you have had to PERSEVERE through a weather challenged January.  We certainly have – snow, ice, mud, frozen water lines – and yet, as the U.S. Postal Service would say,” the mail must go through.”  So it https://www.youtube.com/embed/C2hp2D98vsc https://img.youtube.com/vi/C2hp2D98vsc/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2026 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  No doubt you have had to PERSEVERE through a weather challenged January.  We certainly have – snow, ice, mud, frozen water lines – and yet, as the U.S. Postal Service would say,” the mail must go through.”  So it https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-january-2026/ 2026-04-10T17:17:31+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bd17d147-d18b-f3b7-7fe7-afb960ae53741.jpg bd17d147-d18b-f3b7-7fe7-afb960ae5374[1] https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cb4gMa-0U1o https://img.youtube.com/vi/Cb4gMa-0U1o/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2026 Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  New Year Greetings!   Looking Back -- we are grateful (to you and to so many others in 2025)  Looking Forward -- we are expectant, that 2026 will be even “more abundant beyond all that we ask or think, according to https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZFqH94qP4CY https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZFqH94qP4CY/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2026 Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  New Year Greetings!   Looking Back -- we are grateful (to you and to so many others in 2025)  Looking Forward -- we are expectant, that 2026 will be even “more abundant beyond all that we ask or think, according to https://www.youtube.com/embed/EnfnhMAYtwE https://img.youtube.com/vi/EnfnhMAYtwE/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2026 Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  New Year Greetings!   Looking Back -- we are grateful (to you and to so many others in 2025)  Looking Forward -- we are expectant, that 2026 will be even “more abundant beyond all that we ask or think, according to https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-november-2025/ 2026-04-10T17:20:32+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/November-Header-2025-scaled.jpg November-Header-2025 https://youtu.be/nG12BeACts4https://youtu.be/hnOOzNOs21g https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/November-Header-2025-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • November 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  The last 12 months have been breathtaking, literally.  An unexpected fire last November 10, tragic and destructive, took NCHV to its emotional knees.  Then, resilience and perseverance, one boot in front of the other, https://www.youtube.com/embed/nG12BeACts4https://youtu.be/hnOOzNOs21g https://img.youtube.com/vi/nG12BeACts4https://youtu.be/hnOOzNOs21g/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • November 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,  The last 12 months have been breathtaking, literally.  An unexpected fire last November 10, tragic and destructive, took NCHV to its emotional knees.  Then, resilience and perseverance, one boot in front of the other, https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-october-2025/ 2026-04-10T17:22:40+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/fe78ea1b-a60d-a2c6-54c1-6c7b90a42cd0.jpg fe78ea1b-a60d-a2c6-54c1-6c7b90a42cd0 https://youtu.be/Mpyy--f2jC0https://youtu.be/UqDgP43Yqlo https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/fe78ea1b-a60d-a2c6-54c1-6c7b90a42cd0.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • October 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,  What a contrast of events this month!  On one hand violence, assassinations, protests, the unexpected loss of a dear Veteran volunteer, and international intrigue; yet also signs of revival across America, a Spirit of Virginia Arena https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mpyy--f2jC0https://youtu.be/UqDgP43Yqlo https://img.youtube.com/vi/Mpyy--f2jC0https://youtu.be/UqDgP43Yqlo/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • October 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,  What a contrast of events this month!  On one hand violence, assassinations, protests, the unexpected loss of a dear Veteran volunteer, and international intrigue; yet also signs of revival across America, a Spirit of Virginia Arena https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-september-2025/ 2026-04-10T17:25:15+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/a28dfac0-c4ad-cf83-69ec-66520d1e80091.jpg a28dfac0-c4ad-cf83-69ec-66520d1e8009[1] https://www.youtube.com/embed/sMzw1PHrLM8 https://img.youtube.com/vi/sMzw1PHrLM8/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, With the passing of Labor Day comes the departure of hot summer days and activities, overtaken by an increasingly cool Fall which signals change in the air.  This TRANSITION to another season is symbolic of the many other transitions in https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-august-2025/ 2026-04-10T17:27:56+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/453445ca-3157-6273-315f-1fa311d302c71.jpg 453445ca-3157-6273-315f-1fa311d302c7[1] https://www.youtube.com/embed/sMzw1PHrLM8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDs37fpiFNs https://img.youtube.com/vi/sMzw1PHrLM8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDs37fpiFNs/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, We are humbled by God’s grace and provision over the last nine months to move us from ashes to action, from mourning to joy, from a day of tragedy to a day of triumph.  You should have your “Day After” invite by now, inviting you to https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-july-2025/ 2026-04-10T17:29:55+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/d07d6ffa-6722-995d-0f0c-6704927d8a46.jpg d07d6ffa-6722-995d-0f0c-6704927d8a46 https://youtu.be/G88VwOaIZME https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/d07d6ffa-6722-995d-0f0c-6704927d8a46.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Let me share my heart with you.  As I consider what we are observing at Valor Farm, I truly identify with the great hymn “How Great Thou Art,” particularly the phrase “I scarce can take it in.”  Whether it is literally saving https://www.youtube.com/embed/G88VwOaIZME https://img.youtube.com/vi/G88VwOaIZME/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Let me share my heart with you.  As I consider what we are observing at Valor Farm, I truly identify with the great hymn “How Great Thou Art,” particularly the phrase “I scarce can take it in.”  Whether it is literally saving https://www.youtube.com/embed/QBhG2_8A53k https://img.youtube.com/vi/QBhG2_8A53k/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Let me share my heart with you.  As I consider what we are observing at Valor Farm, I truly identify with the great hymn “How Great Thou Art,” particularly the phrase “I scarce can take it in.”  Whether it is literally saving https://www.youtube.com/embed/NDyNL4kQmyc https://img.youtube.com/vi/NDyNL4kQmyc/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Let me share my heart with you.  As I consider what we are observing at Valor Farm, I truly identify with the great hymn “How Great Thou Art,” particularly the phrase “I scarce can take it in.”  Whether it is literally saving https://www.youtube.com/embed/4DDIopaV_sg?si=j1CFwnz780ZZm9y8 https://img.youtube.com/vi/4DDIopaV_sg?si=j1CFwnz780ZZm9y8/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Let me share my heart with you.  As I consider what we are observing at Valor Farm, I truly identify with the great hymn “How Great Thou Art,” particularly the phrase “I scarce can take it in.”  Whether it is literally saving https://www.youtube.com/embed/pfkHuhe4-5I?si=b5wjAXsepS9IHjjo https://img.youtube.com/vi/pfkHuhe4-5I?si=b5wjAXsepS9IHjjo/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Let me share my heart with you.  As I consider what we are observing at Valor Farm, I truly identify with the great hymn “How Great Thou Art,” particularly the phrase “I scarce can take it in.”  Whether it is literally saving https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-june-2025/ 2025-09-16T14:12:04+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ce374f84-9935-2022-0580-2fc223d210eb.jpg ce374f84-9935-2022-0580-2fc223d210eb https://youtu.be/cVU75AZ5gJU https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ce374f84-9935-2022-0580-2fc223d210eb.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, This month of June is characterized by a number of military significant days. Certainly “The Longest Day” (Normandy, June 6, 1944) is a landmark of service and sacrifice by American and Allied Militaries to begin unhinging the entire https://www.youtube.com/embed/cVU75AZ5gJU https://img.youtube.com/vi/cVU75AZ5gJU/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, This month of June is characterized by a number of military significant days. Certainly “The Longest Day” (Normandy, June 6, 1944) is a landmark of service and sacrifice by American and Allied Militaries to begin unhinging the entire https://www.youtube.com/embed/4DDIopaV_sg?si=j1CFwnz780ZZm9y8 https://img.youtube.com/vi/4DDIopaV_sg?si=j1CFwnz780ZZm9y8/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, This month of June is characterized by a number of military significant days. Certainly “The Longest Day” (Normandy, June 6, 1944) is a landmark of service and sacrifice by American and Allied Militaries to begin unhinging the entire https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-may-2025/ 2025-05-30T13:56:52+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/9eafbf25-e17c-dee1-0b02-cf315ccfdb691.jpg 9eafbf25-e17c-dee1-0b02-cf315ccfdb69[1] https://youtu.be/IJO8aYU8W4shttps://www.youtube.com/watch https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/9eafbf25-e17c-dee1-0b02-cf315ccfdb691.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, This month of May is characterized by two bookends: The end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975 (50 years ago) and Memorial Day on May 26, 2025.  These bookends are poignant reminders of the sacrifices of our military men and women over https://www.youtube.com/embed/IJO8aYU8W4shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HDzh6qavvE https://img.youtube.com/vi/IJO8aYU8W4shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HDzh6qavvE/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, This month of May is characterized by two bookends: The end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975 (50 years ago) and Memorial Day on May 26, 2025.  These bookends are poignant reminders of the sacrifices of our military men and women over https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-april-2025/ 2025-05-30T14:25:50+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1aba9106-6e50-5cf9-492e-1948efe38ccc1.jpg 1aba9106-6e50-5cf9-492e-1948efe38ccc[1] https://youtu.be/HpV3Lfa5PBM https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1aba9106-6e50-5cf9-492e-1948efe38ccc1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Thanks as always for your encouragement, your volunteerism, your gifts-in-kind, your financial donations, your referrals of Veterans in need, and your prayers.  May you “Keep Up the Fire” on behalf of those we serve. Yep, it https://www.youtube.com/embed/HpV3Lfa5PBM https://img.youtube.com/vi/HpV3Lfa5PBM/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Thanks as always for your encouragement, your volunteerism, your gifts-in-kind, your financial donations, your referrals of Veterans in need, and your prayers.  May you “Keep Up the Fire” on behalf of those we serve. Yep, it https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-march-2025/ 2025-03-15T05:49:08+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6ef54981-3015-b567-b333-52700e75dd091.jpg 6ef54981-3015-b567-b333-52700e75dd09[1] https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-february-2025/ 2025-03-15T05:49:18+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/0311e521-09ff-6cb8-cd55-86dde05b519b1.jpg 0311e521-09ff-6cb8-cd55-86dde05b519b[1] https://youtu.be/GRzGlTpqj-Y https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/0311e521-09ff-6cb8-cd55-86dde05b519b1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, We have had an exciting month of January – ice storms and power outages, new Patriot arrivals, continued operations despite temporary loss of infrastructure due to barn fire, a new pole barn as temporary facility for horsemanship and https://www.youtube.com/embed/1mN4ODmr5d0 https://img.youtube.com/vi/1mN4ODmr5d0/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, We have had an exciting month of January – ice storms and power outages, new Patriot arrivals, continued operations despite temporary loss of infrastructure due to barn fire, a new pole barn as temporary facility for horsemanship and https://www.youtube.com/embed/GRzGlTpqj-Y https://img.youtube.com/vi/GRzGlTpqj-Y/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, We have had an exciting month of January – ice storms and power outages, new Patriot arrivals, continued operations despite temporary loss of infrastructure due to barn fire, a new pole barn as temporary facility for horsemanship and https://www.youtube.com/embed/lnsVv-mXnGQ https://img.youtube.com/vi/lnsVv-mXnGQ/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, We have had an exciting month of January – ice storms and power outages, new Patriot arrivals, continued operations despite temporary loss of infrastructure due to barn fire, a new pole barn as temporary facility for horsemanship and https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-janueary-2025/ 2025-01-24T18:38:32+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/6c0ae079-c24b-6e5a-5b60-5ccb4f64bd1c.jpg 6c0ae079-c24b-6e5a-5b60-5ccb4f64bd1c https://youtu.be/Vn8DEN-JYaI https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/6c0ae079-c24b-6e5a-5b60-5ccb4f64bd1c.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Happy New Year! 2024 was an amazing year for the National Center for Healthy Veterans (2024 Year in Review Video, if you haven’t watched it yet). As well, the NCHV 2024 Impact Report depicts God’s Faithfulness in so many ways, https://www.youtube.com/embed/nJOEximuKcQ https://img.youtube.com/vi/nJOEximuKcQ/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Happy New Year! 2024 was an amazing year for the National Center for Healthy Veterans (2024 Year in Review Video, if you haven’t watched it yet). As well, the NCHV 2024 Impact Report depicts God’s Faithfulness in so many ways, https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vn8DEN-JYaI https://img.youtube.com/vi/Vn8DEN-JYaI/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Happy New Year! 2024 was an amazing year for the National Center for Healthy Veterans (2024 Year in Review Video, if you haven’t watched it yet). As well, the NCHV 2024 Impact Report depicts God’s Faithfulness in so many ways, https://www.youtube.com/embed/MjjHq5MuWaY https://img.youtube.com/vi/MjjHq5MuWaY/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2025 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Happy New Year! 2024 was an amazing year for the National Center for Healthy Veterans (2024 Year in Review Video, if you haven’t watched it yet). As well, the NCHV 2024 Impact Report depicts God’s Faithfulness in so many ways, https://healthyveterans.org/hope-in-midst-of-sorrow/ 2025-04-25T19:22:32+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/982cfa03-3315-1065-70b0-bbab9392e2c51.jpg 982cfa03-3315-1065-70b0-bbab9392e2c5[1] https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-november-december-2024/ 2025-02-11T18:17:34+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ab274a6c-4501-36d9-0dfb-6f1991f1fae01-scaled-e1731532317443.jpeg ab274a6c-4501-36d9-0dfb-6f1991f1fae0[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/d0bbf306-53b5-3c3c-6bb0-c78b2b44019e1-300x225.jpg https://youtu.be/zfvPiZvKQSk https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ab274a6c-4501-36d9-0dfb-6f1991f1fae01-scaled-e1731532317443.jpeg Healthy Veteran Highlights • November / December 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In case you haven’t heard, Valor Farm experienced a tragic barn fire which destroyed our stables, riding arena, administrative offices, and maintenance garage.  Gratefully no people or horses were injured (at least physically), but we do https://www.youtube.com/embed/nJOEximuKcQ https://img.youtube.com/vi/nJOEximuKcQ/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • November / December 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In case you haven’t heard, Valor Farm experienced a tragic barn fire which destroyed our stables, riding arena, administrative offices, and maintenance garage.  Gratefully no people or horses were injured (at least physically), but we do https://www.youtube.com/embed/zfvPiZvKQSk?si=VDzAF2QzUGvA4Esg https://img.youtube.com/vi/zfvPiZvKQSk?si=VDzAF2QzUGvA4Esg/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • November / December 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In case you haven’t heard, Valor Farm experienced a tragic barn fire which destroyed our stables, riding arena, administrative offices, and maintenance garage.  Gratefully no people or horses were injured (at least physically), but we do https://www.youtube.com/embed/hemI-zwUkKc?si=MP_u5xgOMWMBsv3T https://img.youtube.com/vi/hemI-zwUkKc?si=MP_u5xgOMWMBsv3T/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • November / December 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In case you haven’t heard, Valor Farm experienced a tragic barn fire which destroyed our stables, riding arena, administrative offices, and maintenance garage.  Gratefully no people or horses were injured (at least physically), but we do https://www.youtube.com/embed/0ye_MGGMPls?si=ui7g-UjBedRF-VGk https://img.youtube.com/vi/0ye_MGGMPls?si=ui7g-UjBedRF-VGk/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • November / December 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In case you haven’t heard, Valor Farm experienced a tragic barn fire which destroyed our stables, riding arena, administrative offices, and maintenance garage.  Gratefully no people or horses were injured (at least physically), but we do https://healthyveterans.org/firerelief/ 2024-11-27T20:43:15+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Aerial-Barn-After-scaled.jpg Aerial Barn View After the Fire https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Volunteers-Day-Before-Fire-scaled.jpg https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-october-2024/ 2025-01-24T18:39:56+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/8a5438ac-1274-4b08-cbaf-4ebb9d5c9b1d1.jpg 8a5438ac-1274-4b08-cbaf-4ebb9d5c9b1d[1] https://youtu.be/xfJr0m4KnA0 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/8a5438ac-1274-4b08-cbaf-4ebb9d5c9b1d1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • October 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, One of my beloved Grandmother’s favorite sayings was “Many hands make light work!” Consistent with this axiom, this month’s theme is Volunteerism.  In short, we at the National Center for Healthy Veterans are extremely grateful https://www.youtube.com/embed/xfJr0m4KnA0?si=kBMOurxu8umWMm_5 https://img.youtube.com/vi/xfJr0m4KnA0?si=kBMOurxu8umWMm_5/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • October 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, One of my beloved Grandmother’s favorite sayings was “Many hands make light work!” Consistent with this axiom, this month’s theme is Volunteerism.  In short, we at the National Center for Healthy Veterans are extremely grateful https://www.youtube.com/embed/BhNfnTp8xhg?si=nfGQnOlmeFTSKR_2 https://img.youtube.com/vi/BhNfnTp8xhg?si=nfGQnOlmeFTSKR_2/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • October 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, One of my beloved Grandmother’s favorite sayings was “Many hands make light work!” Consistent with this axiom, this month’s theme is Volunteerism.  In short, we at the National Center for Healthy Veterans are extremely grateful https://www.youtube.com/embed/jSdt733duuY https://img.youtube.com/vi/jSdt733duuY/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • October 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, One of my beloved Grandmother’s favorite sayings was “Many hands make light work!” Consistent with this axiom, this month’s theme is Volunteerism.  In short, we at the National Center for Healthy Veterans are extremely grateful https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-september-2024/ 2025-01-24T18:40:21+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ef8ec66e-8911-d534-3c3d-b2f3316ab104.jpg ef8ec66e-8911-d534-3c3d-b2f3316ab104 https://youtu.be/1jfHjHiMcwk https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ef8ec66e-8911-d534-3c3d-b2f3316ab104.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In our Resilience God Style course at Valor Farm, we discuss the Power of NEW.  The NEW smell of a recently purchased car, or freshly baked bread, or the cry of a new baby.  At Valor Farm, we observe the Power of NEW every three months https://www.youtube.com/embed/1jfHjHiMcwk https://img.youtube.com/vi/1jfHjHiMcwk/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In our Resilience God Style course at Valor Farm, we discuss the Power of NEW.  The NEW smell of a recently purchased car, or freshly baked bread, or the cry of a new baby.  At Valor Farm, we observe the Power of NEW every three months https://www.youtube.com/embed/eFB10saMxBg https://img.youtube.com/vi/eFB10saMxBg/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In our Resilience God Style course at Valor Farm, we discuss the Power of NEW.  The NEW smell of a recently purchased car, or freshly baked bread, or the cry of a new baby.  At Valor Farm, we observe the Power of NEW every three months https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-august-2024/ 2024-10-04T14:24:34+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/1a50da29-6883-be57-bda3-3282eba4904f.jpg 1a50da29-6883-be57-bda3-3282eba4904f https://youtu.be/fNP0CK7g2dU https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/1a50da29-6883-be57-bda3-3282eba4904f.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Welcome to Fall 2024, a sign of TRANSITION not just in the seasons of weather, but also in the seasons of life for many of our Patriots at Valor Farm.  While transition is often uncertain and a little scary for all of us, it usually https://www.youtube.com/embed/fNP0CK7g2dU https://img.youtube.com/vi/fNP0CK7g2dU/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Welcome to Fall 2024, a sign of TRANSITION not just in the seasons of weather, but also in the seasons of life for many of our Patriots at Valor Farm.  While transition is often uncertain and a little scary for all of us, it usually https://www.youtube.com/embed/mbuvI7l_1EE https://img.youtube.com/vi/mbuvI7l_1EE/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Welcome to Fall 2024, a sign of TRANSITION not just in the seasons of weather, but also in the seasons of life for many of our Patriots at Valor Farm.  While transition is often uncertain and a little scary for all of us, it usually https://www.youtube.com/embed/bTCoecPRlJg https://img.youtube.com/vi/bTCoecPRlJg/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Welcome to Fall 2024, a sign of TRANSITION not just in the seasons of weather, but also in the seasons of life for many of our Patriots at Valor Farm.  While transition is often uncertain and a little scary for all of us, it usually https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-july-2024/ 2024-10-04T14:24:51+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/6519b05b-23c1-4651-da7d-2af0fef026a3.jpg 6519b05b-23c1-4651-da7d-2af0fef026a3 https://youtu.be/ripfE7lAd84 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/6519b05b-23c1-4651-da7d-2af0fef026a3.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, I trust you had a fun and perhaps contemplative Independence Day weekend.  As with Christmas, sometimes the trappings of the season, whether Christmas commercialism or the “rockets red glare” fireworks of July 4 overshadow the true https://www.youtube.com/embed/ripfE7lAd84?si=NnYw0KbkmEI9ZYBuDees https://img.youtube.com/vi/ripfE7lAd84?si=NnYw0KbkmEI9ZYBuDees/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, I trust you had a fun and perhaps contemplative Independence Day weekend.  As with Christmas, sometimes the trappings of the season, whether Christmas commercialism or the “rockets red glare” fireworks of July 4 overshadow the true https://www.youtube.com/embed/sOcGibWZLhA?si=Bd0F6NKRsp4i4ZPp https://img.youtube.com/vi/sOcGibWZLhA?si=Bd0F6NKRsp4i4ZPp/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, I trust you had a fun and perhaps contemplative Independence Day weekend.  As with Christmas, sometimes the trappings of the season, whether Christmas commercialism or the “rockets red glare” fireworks of July 4 overshadow the true https://www.youtube.com/embed/uPuxf4lO_fg https://img.youtube.com/vi/uPuxf4lO_fg/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, I trust you had a fun and perhaps contemplative Independence Day weekend.  As with Christmas, sometimes the trappings of the season, whether Christmas commercialism or the “rockets red glare” fireworks of July 4 overshadow the true https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-june-2024/ 2024-07-03T06:03:36+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/fc68d20e-fbb4-81a4-59f1-d5aa2665120e1.jpg fc68d20e-fbb4-81a4-59f1-d5aa2665120e[1] https://youtu.be/NyyfW42EmJ4 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/fc68d20e-fbb4-81a4-59f1-d5aa2665120e1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, The familiar Christian song How Great Thou Art includes the phrase “I scarce can take it in,” referring to the awe inspiring goodness of God.  This phrase also applies to this past month at Valor Farm – as you will see in the https://www.youtube.com/embed/NyyfW42EmJ4 https://img.youtube.com/vi/NyyfW42EmJ4/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, The familiar Christian song How Great Thou Art includes the phrase “I scarce can take it in,” referring to the awe inspiring goodness of God.  This phrase also applies to this past month at Valor Farm – as you will see in the https://www.youtube.com/embed/omFqgYCztEw https://img.youtube.com/vi/omFqgYCztEw/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, The familiar Christian song How Great Thou Art includes the phrase “I scarce can take it in,” referring to the awe inspiring goodness of God.  This phrase also applies to this past month at Valor Farm – as you will see in the https://www.youtube.com/embed/GYuZleIAd_w https://img.youtube.com/vi/GYuZleIAd_w/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, The familiar Christian song How Great Thou Art includes the phrase “I scarce can take it in,” referring to the awe inspiring goodness of God.  This phrase also applies to this past month at Valor Farm – as you will see in the https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jf1uSk4Qjts https://img.youtube.com/vi/Jf1uSk4Qjts/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, The familiar Christian song How Great Thou Art includes the phrase “I scarce can take it in,” referring to the awe inspiring goodness of God.  This phrase also applies to this past month at Valor Farm – as you will see in the https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-may-2024/ 2024-06-28T18:16:50+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/b95dfee1-1f57-67d3-6a2c-1d56770078dd.jpg b95dfee1-1f57-67d3-6a2c-1d56770078dd https://youtu.be/IxZWG6Wtqh8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/b95dfee1-1f57-67d3-6a2c-1d56770078dd.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, As a Nation, we just commemorated Memorial Day 2024.  Speaking at a Memorial Day Commemoration in southern Virginia, I reminded participants of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “… It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here https://www.youtube.com/embed/IxZWG6Wtqh8?si=Orn5qwh7EpiyKammhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D02LsAp8xow https://img.youtube.com/vi/IxZWG6Wtqh8?si=Orn5qwh7EpiyKammhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D02LsAp8xow/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, As a Nation, we just commemorated Memorial Day 2024.  Speaking at a Memorial Day Commemoration in southern Virginia, I reminded participants of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “… It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-april-2024/ 2024-06-11T18:50:50+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/30f8d796-f317-ab2f-f2d3-fa535081799a.jpg 30f8d796-f317-ab2f-f2d3-fa535081799a https://youtu.be/4zEty9h5R40https://youtu.be/ajVXu8HwWzshttps://youtu.be/2-wfaMTB9bE https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/30f8d796-f317-ab2f-f2d3-fa535081799a.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, This last week we enjoyed a pretty amazing Volunteer Saturday at Valor Farm – over 80 volunteers from a variety of organizations – carving trails in the woods, cleaning up our pond, lots of landscaping, tender loving care and cleaning https://www.youtube.com/embed/4zEty9h5R40https://youtu.be/ajVXu8HwWzshttps://youtu.be/2-wfaMTB9bE https://img.youtube.com/vi/4zEty9h5R40https://youtu.be/ajVXu8HwWzshttps://youtu.be/2-wfaMTB9bE/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, This last week we enjoyed a pretty amazing Volunteer Saturday at Valor Farm – over 80 volunteers from a variety of organizations – carving trails in the woods, cleaning up our pond, lots of landscaping, tender loving care and cleaning https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-march-2024/ 2024-07-03T06:17:21+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ec4a6be6-53e4-2f6c-0ee4-1c64cfe69bc31.jpg ec4a6be6-53e4-2f6c-0ee4-1c64cfe69bc3[1] https://youtu.be/Jb0imRYSfpI https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ec4a6be6-53e4-2f6c-0ee4-1c64cfe69bc31.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,What is your favorite part of Spring?  Maybe the return of birds who chirp their distinctive songs as they flit about the freshness of new growth?  Or perhaps the green shoots that appear under the melting snow?  Possibly for you it is https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jb0imRYSfpI https://img.youtube.com/vi/Jb0imRYSfpI/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,What is your favorite part of Spring?  Maybe the return of birds who chirp their distinctive songs as they flit about the freshness of new growth?  Or perhaps the green shoots that appear under the melting snow?  Possibly for you it is https://www.youtube.com/embed/5b91DOatp3o https://img.youtube.com/vi/5b91DOatp3o/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,What is your favorite part of Spring?  Maybe the return of birds who chirp their distinctive songs as they flit about the freshness of new growth?  Or perhaps the green shoots that appear under the melting snow?  Possibly for you it is https://healthyveterans.org/city-on-a-hill/ 2024-06-07T18:11:02+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Angelica-Painting.jpg Angelica Painting https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-february-2024/ 2024-06-28T18:17:10+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/7af00189-3369-601d-5528-d498a3480c41.jpg 7af00189-3369-601d-5528-d498a3480c41 https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-january-2024/ 2024-06-07T18:10:32+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/50cdb505-6b6b-77de-20e8-f0869b6b4d9d.jpg 50cdb505-6b6b-77de-20e8-f0869b6b4d9d https://youtu.be/DD76mT0XsbAhttps://youtu.be/ml8O_DsiRsM https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/50cdb505-6b6b-77de-20e8-f0869b6b4d9d.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, While 2023 is now in our rear-view mirrors, we remain GRATEFUL for the many who helped and the many who healed.  Our entire team deeply appreciates the generous donors and ministry partners who have kept us in this fight for the very https://www.youtube.com/embed/DD76mT0XsbAhttps://youtu.be/ml8O_DsiRsM https://img.youtube.com/vi/DD76mT0XsbAhttps://youtu.be/ml8O_DsiRsM/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2024 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, While 2023 is now in our rear-view mirrors, we remain GRATEFUL for the many who helped and the many who healed.  Our entire team deeply appreciates the generous donors and ministry partners who have kept us in this fight for the very https://healthyveterans.org/nchv-2023-milestones-and-objectives-in-2024/ 2024-02-03T05:51:55+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/diving-deeper-jan2024-revised.jpg diving-deeper-jan2024-revised https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/NCHV-Veteran-Engagement-Engine.jpg https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-december-2023/ 2024-06-07T18:12:13+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ba84084e-6de8-dcff-5182-91f6f65a0f711.jpg Tall in the Saddle https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-october-2023/ 2024-06-07T18:11:16+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4b2b5783-493a-7c0f-3a01-7d37cc0d108b1.jpg 4b2b5783-493a-7c0f-3a01-7d37cc0d108b[1] https://youtu.be/Ikh-jzy5bI4 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4b2b5783-493a-7c0f-3a01-7d37cc0d108b1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • October 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, On this Veterans Day 2023, we must ask ourselves a very important question: “Where would we be without our Veterans?” What if they had concluded it was too windy, too wet, and too uncomfortable to venture onto the beaches of Normandy in June 1944? https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ikh-jzy5bI4?si=nCcUYOqa7kUcjc8t https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ikh-jzy5bI4?si=nCcUYOqa7kUcjc8t/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • October 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, On this Veterans Day 2023, we must ask ourselves a very important question: “Where would we be without our Veterans?” What if they had concluded it was too windy, too wet, and too uncomfortable to venture onto the beaches of Normandy in June 1944? https://www.youtube.com/embed/ru2f1PGGylc https://img.youtube.com/vi/ru2f1PGGylc/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • October 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, On this Veterans Day 2023, we must ask ourselves a very important question: “Where would we be without our Veterans?” What if they had concluded it was too windy, too wet, and too uncomfortable to venture onto the beaches of Normandy in June 1944? https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-september-2023/ 2024-06-07T18:11:28+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/September-Header-2023-scaled.jpg September-Header-2023 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/goldstarplat-150x150.jpg https://youtu.be/__3yh9HxRSg https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/September-Header-2023-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,September has been Suicide Prevention Month. In essence this is what we at NCHV do every day.  This is the key reason for our intentional design keyed to suicide prevention and restoration: community living to defeat isolation, https://www.youtube.com/embed/__3yh9HxRSg https://img.youtube.com/vi/__3yh9HxRSg/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,September has been Suicide Prevention Month. In essence this is what we at NCHV do every day.  This is the key reason for our intentional design keyed to suicide prevention and restoration: community living to defeat isolation, https://www.youtube.com/embed/OlUkhv_nhHs?si=ZM1OoQuHvCiRUPYv https://img.youtube.com/vi/OlUkhv_nhHs?si=ZM1OoQuHvCiRUPYv/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,September has been Suicide Prevention Month. In essence this is what we at NCHV do every day.  This is the key reason for our intentional design keyed to suicide prevention and restoration: community living to defeat isolation, https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-august-2023/ 2024-06-07T18:11:39+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/38a16bf1-fd51-2a88-d115-eaf29702f37e2.jpg 38a16bf1-fd51-2a88-d115-eaf29702f37e[2] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/d727af7b-5ca9-81b6-3d0a-bee16794afc31-300x205.jpg https://youtu.be/XHAXO873FDo https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/38a16bf1-fd51-2a88-d115-eaf29702f37e2.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,Summer is on it's last lap.  With the onset of September and the passage of Labor Day, we are reminded that our remaining months of warm sunshine and long days are limited.  This pending change in season is clearly demonstrated https://www.youtube.com/embed/XHAXO873FDo?si=yIhxS2D775lYLvGt https://img.youtube.com/vi/XHAXO873FDo?si=yIhxS2D775lYLvGt/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,Summer is on it's last lap.  With the onset of September and the passage of Labor Day, we are reminded that our remaining months of warm sunshine and long days are limited.  This pending change in season is clearly demonstrated https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-july-2023/ 2023-08-14T04:08:59+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/d3ae0d2e-db52-2c9a-8d6f-1bb10c431f661.jpg d3ae0d2e-db52-2c9a-8d6f-1bb10c431f66[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/iWOqQ-cysgE https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/d3ae0d2e-db52-2c9a-8d6f-1bb10c431f661.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,May you be having a great Summer! Our theme this month is “Community,” one of NCHV’s core operating tenets and our primary means to defeat the isolation that leads to suicide and other challenges.  As you will read below, https://www.youtube.com/embed/iWOqQ-cysgE https://img.youtube.com/vi/iWOqQ-cysgE/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,May you be having a great Summer! Our theme this month is “Community,” one of NCHV’s core operating tenets and our primary means to defeat the isolation that leads to suicide and other challenges.  As you will read below, https://www.youtube.com/embed/sPe70M_EuzQ https://img.youtube.com/vi/sPe70M_EuzQ/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm,May you be having a great Summer! Our theme this month is “Community,” one of NCHV’s core operating tenets and our primary means to defeat the isolation that leads to suicide and other challenges.  As you will read below, https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-june-2023/ 2023-08-14T04:07:53+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/9b495d64-e070-c902-f63f-ef825c2dc1cc1.jpg 9b495d64-e070-c902-f63f-ef825c2dc1cc[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/OEL_8fyCte4 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/9b495d64-e070-c902-f63f-ef825c2dc1cc1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,We sincerely wish you a blessed and relaxing Independence Day holiday with family and friends.  As well, we invite you to join us in honoring great American Patriots who have secured our “Independence” as a Nation. Our Founding Fathers https://www.youtube.com/embed/OEL_8fyCte4 https://img.youtube.com/vi/OEL_8fyCte4/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,We sincerely wish you a blessed and relaxing Independence Day holiday with family and friends.  As well, we invite you to join us in honoring great American Patriots who have secured our “Independence” as a Nation. Our Founding Fathers https://www.youtube.com/embed/6DyTeiDyl1s https://img.youtube.com/vi/6DyTeiDyl1s/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,We sincerely wish you a blessed and relaxing Independence Day holiday with family and friends.  As well, we invite you to join us in honoring great American Patriots who have secured our “Independence” as a Nation. Our Founding Fathers https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-may-2023/ 2023-08-14T04:10:02+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/f90d4324-9701-e737-7604-ebbc4d4346ae1.jpg f90d4324-9701-e737-7604-ebbc4d4346ae[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/vGYhT4YPu5Y https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/f90d4324-9701-e737-7604-ebbc4d4346ae1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,We will soon commemorate Memorial Day 2023.  Consider Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address:“… It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is https://www.youtube.com/embed/vGYhT4YPu5Y https://img.youtube.com/vi/vGYhT4YPu5Y/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,We will soon commemorate Memorial Day 2023.  Consider Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address:“… It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is https://www.youtube.com/embed/45pCadM1K5M https://img.youtube.com/vi/45pCadM1K5M/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,We will soon commemorate Memorial Day 2023.  Consider Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address:“… It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is https://www.youtube.com/embed/D02LsAp8xow https://img.youtube.com/vi/D02LsAp8xow/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • May 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,We will soon commemorate Memorial Day 2023.  Consider Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address:“… It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is https://healthyveterans.org/the-equine-therapy-program-at-the-national-center-for-healthy-veterans/ 2023-08-03T14:36:10+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/horse-brown-head-1201143.jpg horse-brown-head-1201143 https://www.youtube.com/embed/Md1uTc4eidM https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/horse-brown-head-1201143.jpg The Equine Therapy Program at the National Center for Healthy Veterans Working to create meaningful bonds between our Patriots and horses, our equine assisted therapy offers an array of benefits such as reduction of stress, improved strength, and improved stamina. https://healthyveterans.org/living-in-the-heart-of-virginia-with-jake-corwin/ 2023-08-03T14:36:16+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/in-the-media-may-2023.jpg in-the-media-may-2023 https://www.youtube.com/embed/vGYhT4YPu5Y https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/in-the-media-may-2023.jpg Living in the Heart of Virginia with Jake Corwin A huge thank you to Emily Robinson with ABC 13 - WSET for featuring us this week on the Living in the Heart of Virginia-LHOV segment. As well as a thank you to All Phase Roofing & Construction for sponsoring the segment. Your continued support for our program will raise awareness and return healthy veterans to https://healthyveterans.org/we-had-the-honor-of-hosting-the-service-leadership-class-from-hargrave-military-academy/ 2023-08-03T14:36:19+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hargrave-Military-Academy-01.jpg Hargrave Military Academy https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hargrave-Military-Academy-01-1-150x150.jpg https://healthyveterans.org/volunteer-shout-out-by-bob-dees/ 2023-08-03T14:36:31+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Volunteer-Day-07.jpg Volunteer Day https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Volunteer-Day-11-150x150.jpg https://www.youtube.com/embed/45pCadM1K5M https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Volunteer-Day-07.jpg Volunteer Shout Out by Bob Dees Another amazing volunteer day on Saturday! Thank you to all of the groups that showed up to help us plant veggies and complete construction and landscaping projects. We couldn't do what we do without the selfless sacrifice of our many volunteers! #valorfarm #gardening #healthyveterans #volunteer https://healthyveterans.org/bob-and-bev-uber/ 2023-08-03T14:36:34+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/9f9e80b0-6d82-e2a4-6d17-bac383db27591.jpg 9f9e80b0-6d82-e2a4-6d17-bac383db2759[1] https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-april-2023/ 2023-08-14T04:11:22+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/3ca4ab71-1f56-f31d-7620-1fe55e23b1712.jpg 3ca4ab71-1f56-f31d-7620-1fe55e23b171[2] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/AlP5BgYNfus https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/3ca4ab71-1f56-f31d-7620-1fe55e23b1712.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Last month in March we talked about growth, so it is fitting that NEW LIFE is our topic this month.  Spring is finally in full bloom – the bees on Valor Farm are rapidly rebuilding hives after the Winter, the new calves are growing and https://www.youtube.com/embed/AlP5BgYNfus https://img.youtube.com/vi/AlP5BgYNfus/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Last month in March we talked about growth, so it is fitting that NEW LIFE is our topic this month.  Spring is finally in full bloom – the bees on Valor Farm are rapidly rebuilding hives after the Winter, the new calves are growing and https://www.youtube.com/embed/faA7WmUthEg https://img.youtube.com/vi/faA7WmUthEg/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Last month in March we talked about growth, so it is fitting that NEW LIFE is our topic this month.  Spring is finally in full bloom – the bees on Valor Farm are rapidly rebuilding hives after the Winter, the new calves are growing and https://healthyveterans.org/dale-grigg/ 2023-08-03T14:36:38+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/e6dc487e-325f-da85-16ee-5ce077bb02571.jpg e6dc487e-325f-da85-16ee-5ce077bb0257[1] https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-march-2023/ 2023-08-14T04:13:18+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/c4b8c028-d85d-ec43-97bb-d1d6978c22fa1.jpg Scenes from Valor Farm https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/7141Gkd2c9w https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/c4b8c028-d85d-ec43-97bb-d1d6978c22fa1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Isn’t it fun to see Spring start to kick into gear?  The four new calves at Valor Farm and the numerous piggies cause us to marvel at new life and the growth which quickly turns them into mature animals.  Similarly, the arrival of new https://www.youtube.com/embed/7141Gkd2c9w https://img.youtube.com/vi/7141Gkd2c9w/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Isn’t it fun to see Spring start to kick into gear?  The four new calves at Valor Farm and the numerous piggies cause us to marvel at new life and the growth which quickly turns them into mature animals.  Similarly, the arrival of new https://www.youtube.com/embed/hd9G4G45iwU https://img.youtube.com/vi/hd9G4G45iwU/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Isn’t it fun to see Spring start to kick into gear?  The four new calves at Valor Farm and the numerous piggies cause us to marvel at new life and the growth which quickly turns them into mature animals.  Similarly, the arrival of new https://healthyveterans.org/brad-and-tera/ 2023-08-03T14:36:42+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/355f3ef9-8d47-d319-cd41-6bf00ed1a9081.jpg 355f3ef9-8d47-d319-cd41-6bf00ed1a908[1] https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-february-2023/ 2024-06-28T18:55:15+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/4cd4d871-0b72-f96d-7b22-71245fe9c0a41.jpg 4cd4d871-0b72-f96d-7b22-71245fe9c0a4[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/__3yh9HxRSg https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/4cd4d871-0b72-f96d-7b22-71245fe9c0a41.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, While many of us are eagerly awaiting Spring, we are still immersed in the rains, snows, and cold of Winter at Valor Farm and likely where you live as well.  As we wait for God’s Creation to bust out in Easter fashion, we https://www.youtube.com/embed/__3yh9HxRSg https://img.youtube.com/vi/__3yh9HxRSg/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, While many of us are eagerly awaiting Spring, we are still immersed in the rains, snows, and cold of Winter at Valor Farm and likely where you live as well.  As we wait for God’s Creation to bust out in Easter fashion, we https://www.youtube.com/embed/pNO7SjqgZdk https://img.youtube.com/vi/pNO7SjqgZdk/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • February 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, While many of us are eagerly awaiting Spring, we are still immersed in the rains, snows, and cold of Winter at Valor Farm and likely where you live as well.  As we wait for God’s Creation to bust out in Easter fashion, we https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-january-2023/ 2023-08-14T04:16:45+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/c4bd0c44-9e78-b240-8a30-06f637b60b9e1.jpg NCHV team visited Governor and Mrs Youngkin at Christmastime https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/UFLshFg52Fg https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/c4bd0c44-9e78-b240-8a30-06f637b60b9e1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Prayerfully you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year season, and may your transition to 2023 be blessed in every way.  In fact, our theme this month is on TRANSITION – we see it in many ways – 2022 to 2023, Fall to Winter, old to https://www.youtube.com/embed/UFLshFg52Fg https://img.youtube.com/vi/UFLshFg52Fg/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Prayerfully you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year season, and may your transition to 2023 be blessed in every way.  In fact, our theme this month is on TRANSITION – we see it in many ways – 2022 to 2023, Fall to Winter, old to https://www.youtube.com/embed/DPet7L4oCQw https://img.youtube.com/vi/DPet7L4oCQw/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Prayerfully you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year season, and may your transition to 2023 be blessed in every way.  In fact, our theme this month is on TRANSITION – we see it in many ways – 2022 to 2023, Fall to Winter, old to https://www.youtube.com/embed/90q9aO6VJ4A https://img.youtube.com/vi/90q9aO6VJ4A/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January 2023 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm,Prayerfully you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year season, and may your transition to 2023 be blessed in every way.  In fact, our theme this month is on TRANSITION – we see it in many ways – 2022 to 2023, Fall to Winter, old to https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-december-2022/ 2023-08-14T04:18:35+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/3a07f665-28a4-f83c-f773-2049d98f49f61.jpg 3a07f665-28a4-f83c-f773-2049d98f49f6[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/be05253f-4933-e30f-5cda-dbe5b32a972e1.jpg https://youtu.be/fK2ZrIjt5gY https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/3a07f665-28a4-f83c-f773-2049d98f49f61.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • December 2022 Welcome Dear Friends,In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good theme.”  This well summarizes how we feel at the National Center for Healthy Veterans.  The theme is driven by GRATITUDE for the overflow of blessings to Valor Farm as so many around America have helped us help Veterans over this https://www.youtube.com/embed/fK2ZrIjt5gY https://img.youtube.com/vi/fK2ZrIjt5gY/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • December 2022 Welcome Dear Friends,In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good theme.”  This well summarizes how we feel at the National Center for Healthy Veterans.  The theme is driven by GRATITUDE for the overflow of blessings to Valor Farm as so many around America have helped us help Veterans over this https://www.youtube.com/embed/lBJAhTLD9FQ https://img.youtube.com/vi/lBJAhTLD9FQ/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • December 2022 Welcome Dear Friends,In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good theme.”  This well summarizes how we feel at the National Center for Healthy Veterans.  The theme is driven by GRATITUDE for the overflow of blessings to Valor Farm as so many around America have helped us help Veterans over this https://www.youtube.com/embed/pNwYQwh5lQQ https://img.youtube.com/vi/pNwYQwh5lQQ/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • December 2022 Welcome Dear Friends,In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good theme.”  This well summarizes how we feel at the National Center for Healthy Veterans.  The theme is driven by GRATITUDE for the overflow of blessings to Valor Farm as so many around America have helped us help Veterans over this https://www.youtube.com/embed/kStaGeFy3AU https://img.youtube.com/vi/kStaGeFy3AU/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • December 2022 Welcome Dear Friends,In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good theme.”  This well summarizes how we feel at the National Center for Healthy Veterans.  The theme is driven by GRATITUDE for the overflow of blessings to Valor Farm as so many around America have helped us help Veterans over this https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-october-2022/ 2023-08-14T04:22:38+00:00 weekly 0.8 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https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/35b7d2fa-6c36-2599-5d95-3a0a4e5e51fc1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,Our theme for this month’s newsletter is simply “Caring for People.”  For NCHV this primarily means caring for veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and their families.While the amazing progress with tiny home construction, community https://www.youtube.com/embed/Md1uTc4eidM https://img.youtube.com/vi/Md1uTc4eidM/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,Our theme for this month’s newsletter is simply “Caring for People.”  For NCHV this primarily means caring for veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and their families.While the amazing progress with tiny home construction, community https://www.youtube.com/embed/35mEmd-2GSo https://img.youtube.com/vi/35mEmd-2GSo/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,Our theme for this month’s newsletter is simply “Caring for People.”  For NCHV this primarily means caring for veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and their families.While the amazing progress with tiny home construction, community https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-july-2022/ 2023-08-14T04:22:50+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/e1c3bffa-a6fe-5043-8744-3ebf447849611.jpg e1c3bffa-a6fe-5043-8744-3ebf44784961[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/kZCtGyLcJCA https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/e1c3bffa-a6fe-5043-8744-3ebf447849611.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I trust each of you had a meaningful 4th of July.  America’s Independence Day is a fitting reminder that FREEDOM is not free, and we are the land of the FREE because of our brave veterans. Hence, our theme for the month of July is simply https://www.youtube.com/embed/kZCtGyLcJCA https://img.youtube.com/vi/kZCtGyLcJCA/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I trust each of you had a meaningful 4th of July.  America’s Independence Day is a fitting reminder that FREEDOM is not free, and we are the land of the FREE because of our brave veterans. Hence, our theme for the month of July is simply https://www.youtube.com/embed/1FWKYmQRtjw https://img.youtube.com/vi/1FWKYmQRtjw/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I trust each of you had a meaningful 4th of July.  America’s Independence Day is a fitting reminder that FREEDOM is not free, and we are the land of the FREE because of our brave veterans. Hence, our theme for the month of July is simply https://www.youtube.com/embed/jffMZM9X2_4 https://img.youtube.com/vi/jffMZM9X2_4/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I trust each of you had a meaningful 4th of July.  America’s Independence Day is a fitting reminder that FREEDOM is not free, and we are the land of the FREE because of our brave veterans. Hence, our theme for the month of July is simply https://www.youtube.com/embed/ONfcMvDl_jc https://img.youtube.com/vi/ONfcMvDl_jc/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • July 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I trust each of you had a meaningful 4th of July.  America’s Independence Day is a fitting reminder that FREEDOM is not free, and we are the land of the FREE because of our brave veterans. Hence, our theme for the month of July is simply https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-june-2022/ 2023-08-14T04:22:53+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/32cda822-1b94-8f3d-9b8c-81869824887a1.jpg 32cda822-1b94-8f3d-9b8c-81869824887a[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/77NHgPd5kNM https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/32cda822-1b94-8f3d-9b8c-81869824887a1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of NCHV and Valor Farm,Our focus at the National Center for Healthy Veterans is generally on health and wellness, but we cannot avoid tough discussions periodically about the reality of military and veteran suicide and other related mental and behavioral health challenges.  Collectively, we must https://www.youtube.com/embed/77NHgPd5kNM https://img.youtube.com/vi/77NHgPd5kNM/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of NCHV and Valor Farm,Our focus at the National Center for Healthy Veterans is generally on health and wellness, but we cannot avoid tough discussions periodically about the reality of military and veteran suicide and other related mental and behavioral health challenges.  Collectively, we must https://www.youtube.com/embed/pO9BAHiOt_Q https://img.youtube.com/vi/pO9BAHiOt_Q/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of NCHV and Valor Farm,Our focus at the National Center for Healthy Veterans is generally on health and wellness, but we cannot avoid tough discussions periodically about the reality of military and veteran suicide and other related mental and behavioral health challenges.  Collectively, we must https://www.youtube.com/embed/0KoKdQpw_FA https://img.youtube.com/vi/0KoKdQpw_FA/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • June 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of NCHV and Valor Farm,Our focus at the National Center for Healthy Veterans is generally on health and wellness, but we cannot avoid tough discussions periodically about the reality of military and veteran suicide and other related mental and behavioral health challenges.  Collectively, we must https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-may-2022/ 2023-08-14T04:22:57+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/fd734bb4-c952-e063-6df5-4bcc63941eac1.jpg fd734bb4-c952-e063-6df5-4bcc63941eac[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-april-2022/ 2023-08-14T04:23:00+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/de06d58b-744a-9a67-132b-919e6147a38c1.jpg NCHV receives Spirit of Virginia Award First Lady and Governor Youngkin https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/8KLyRKfzKIw https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/de06d58b-744a-9a67-132b-919e6147a38c1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I write this from Pigeon Forge TN where I am speaking to a group of pastors about resilience, leadership, and self-care.  One of the key principles is “In the world you will have tribulation.”  So it is with all of us – none of us are immune to https://www.youtube.com/embed/8KLyRKfzKIw https://img.youtube.com/vi/8KLyRKfzKIw/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I write this from Pigeon Forge TN where I am speaking to a group of pastors about resilience, leadership, and self-care.  One of the key principles is “In the world you will have tribulation.”  So it is with all of us – none of us are immune to https://www.youtube.com/embed/pNO7SjqgZdk https://img.youtube.com/vi/pNO7SjqgZdk/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • April 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I write this from Pigeon Forge TN where I am speaking to a group of pastors about resilience, leadership, and self-care.  One of the key principles is “In the world you will have tribulation.”  So it is with all of us – none of us are immune to https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-march-2022/ 2023-08-14T04:23:04+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/9d1e6322-ef3b-664a-c776-ee3070be97d21-scaled.jpg 9d1e6322-ef3b-664a-c776-ee3070be97d2[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/Md1uTc4eidM https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/9d1e6322-ef3b-664a-c776-ee3070be97d21-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I confess a heavy heart as we are in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  I know you join me in prayer for the many innocents impacted by this act of aggression. No doubt you are also inspired by the many acts of courage by Ukrainian https://www.youtube.com/embed/Md1uTc4eidM https://img.youtube.com/vi/Md1uTc4eidM/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • March 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,I confess a heavy heart as we are in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  I know you join me in prayer for the many innocents impacted by this act of aggression. No doubt you are also inspired by the many acts of courage by Ukrainian https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-january-february-2022/ 2023-08-14T04:23:07+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/f1bcb647-9602-af11-36dd-907813d661de1.jpg Scenes from Valor Farm https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/bCMZZqg7edo https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/f1bcb647-9602-af11-36dd-907813d661de1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January/February 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,Our last newsletter of 2021 looked back in gratitude at an amazing year – a year of inspiring teamwork and God’s favor on behalf of “Returning Healthy Veterans to America.” Now we peer forward into 2022 – a year which will possess equally https://www.youtube.com/embed/bCMZZqg7edo https://img.youtube.com/vi/bCMZZqg7edo/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January/February 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,Our last newsletter of 2021 looked back in gratitude at an amazing year – a year of inspiring teamwork and God’s favor on behalf of “Returning Healthy Veterans to America.” Now we peer forward into 2022 – a year which will possess equally https://www.youtube.com/embed/Md1uTc4eidM https://img.youtube.com/vi/Md1uTc4eidM/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January/February 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,Our last newsletter of 2021 looked back in gratitude at an amazing year – a year of inspiring teamwork and God’s favor on behalf of “Returning Healthy Veterans to America.” Now we peer forward into 2022 – a year which will possess equally https://www.youtube.com/embed/RyxNayzYkBg https://img.youtube.com/vi/RyxNayzYkBg/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • January/February 2022 Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans,Our last newsletter of 2021 looked back in gratitude at an amazing year – a year of inspiring teamwork and God’s favor on behalf of “Returning Healthy Veterans to America.” Now we peer forward into 2022 – a year which will possess equally https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-december-2021/ 2025-07-22T17:20:46+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dda623c5-aca6-ae82-2ded-f67e8b3657c21.png dda623c5-aca6-ae82-2ded-f67e8b3657c2[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/lOlrKcMdrjU https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dda623c5-aca6-ae82-2ded-f67e8b3657c21.png Healthy Veteran Highlights • December 2021 Welcome Dear Friends,In this special December edition of our NCHV Newsletter, you will see the recurring theme of GRATITUDE. I invite you to get carried away by this “attitude of gratitude” with us, particularly as we enter another Christmas season.In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good https://www.youtube.com/embed/lOlrKcMdrjU https://img.youtube.com/vi/lOlrKcMdrjU/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • December 2021 Welcome Dear Friends,In this special December edition of our NCHV Newsletter, you will see the recurring theme of GRATITUDE. I invite you to get carried away by this “attitude of gratitude” with us, particularly as we enter another Christmas season.In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good https://www.youtube.com/embed/IBVK3LovMGU https://img.youtube.com/vi/IBVK3LovMGU/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • December 2021 Welcome Dear Friends,In this special December edition of our NCHV Newsletter, you will see the recurring theme of GRATITUDE. I invite you to get carried away by this “attitude of gratitude” with us, particularly as we enter another Christmas season.In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-november-2021/ 2024-06-28T19:00:39+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4b2b5783-493a-7c0f-3a01-7d37cc0d108b1.jpg 4b2b5783-493a-7c0f-3a01-7d37cc0d108b[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://www.youtube.com/embed/20vXTl8h04I https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4b2b5783-493a-7c0f-3a01-7d37cc0d108b1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • November 2021 Welcome Dear NCHV Friends, On this Veterans Day 2021, we must ask ourselves a very important question: “Where would we be without our Veterans?” What if they had concluded it was too windy, too wet, and too uncomfortable to venture onto the beaches of Normandy in June 1944? Gratefully, they didn’t sink to such https://healthyveterans.org/valor-farms-coo-on-infrastructure/ 2023-08-14T04:23:18+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/71c8a420-8602-e92c-5c21-320a6daf86b61-scaled.jpg 71c8a420-8602-e92c-5c21-320a6daf86b6[1] https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-september-2021/ 2023-08-14T04:23:20+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/4a8075e7-d429-5cb3-146e-00b5940c39ae1-scaled.jpg 4a8075e7-d429-5cb3-146e-00b5940c39ae[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/VdKYuL-VPWw https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/4a8075e7-d429-5cb3-146e-00b5940c39ae1-scaled.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2021 Welcome Dear Friends,I write this newsletter introduction in the midst of a national crisis and tragedy called Afghanistan. While avoiding the temptation to provide extensive commentary, I will say the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle has placed thousand of Americans and our Allies in peril and has thrown millions of https://www.youtube.com/embed/NhRKBo3lZqQ https://img.youtube.com/vi/NhRKBo3lZqQ/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2021 Welcome Dear Friends,I write this newsletter introduction in the midst of a national crisis and tragedy called Afghanistan. While avoiding the temptation to provide extensive commentary, I will say the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle has placed thousand of Americans and our Allies in peril and has thrown millions of https://www.youtube.com/embed/VdKYuL-VPWw https://img.youtube.com/vi/VdKYuL-VPWw/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • September 2021 Welcome Dear Friends,I write this newsletter introduction in the midst of a national crisis and tragedy called Afghanistan. While avoiding the temptation to provide extensive commentary, I will say the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle has placed thousand of Americans and our Allies in peril and has thrown millions of https://healthyveterans.org/healthy-veteran-highlights-august-2021/ 2023-08-14T04:23:23+00:00 weekly 0.8 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fdc81850-c6e8-8814-3147-f83b57bff2bb1.jpg fdc81850-c6e8-8814-3147-f83b57bff2bb[1] https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/69d6e621-d45b-be35-1a2a-a893938ba76d1-300x168.jpg https://youtu.be/8hf7aLF5Cs0 https://healthyveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fdc81850-c6e8-8814-3147-f83b57bff2bb1.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2021 Welcome Welcome to our first edition of the "HEALTHY VETERAN HIGHLIGHTS"!Have you ever thought, “Where would we be without our Veterans?” What if on June 6, 1944 (the Normandy invasion to free Europe in WWII), those brave Americans had said “It’s too wet, too windy – we’ll go tomorrow.”  https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hf7aLF5Cs0 https://img.youtube.com/vi/8hf7aLF5Cs0/hqdefault.jpg Healthy Veteran Highlights • August 2021 Welcome Welcome to our first edition of the "HEALTHY VETERAN HIGHLIGHTS"!Have you ever thought, “Where would we be without our Veterans?” What if on June 6, 1944 (the Normandy invasion to free Europe in WWII), those brave Americans had said “It’s too wet, too windy – we’ll go tomorrow.”