Wisconsin Veterans Foundation, Inc.

09/16/2023

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WSC responds to the Vietnam Era Veterans' needs and veterans from all eras through communication and training presented through virtual and in-person seminars.

04/18/2023

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WSC responds to the Vietnam Era Veterans' needs and veterans from all eras through communication and training presented through virtual and in-person seminars.

04/09/2023

This is an article for every veteran to read. Moreover, every veteran mother or father should discuss this with their veteran son and/or daughter.

While the public is aware of some key risk factors for su***de among Veterans, they are often unaware of the devastating relationship between substance use and su***de.

03/12/2023

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Designed for Vietnam-era Veterans and their immediate and extended family. The site is beginning to add more content for southwest Asia conflict veteran issues. This is being expanded.
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WSC responds to the Vietnam Era Veterans' needs and veterans from all eras through communication and training presented through virtual and in-person seminars.

08/21/2021

VVA Wisconsin State Council has a Class A Black Bear permit for September 2021. We will award this permit to a disabled Purple Heart recipient. Please contact John Margowski for additional information.

04/27/2020

Do you have three (3) hours to spare? Assist the Wisconsin Veterans Foundation, Inc. in the areas of social media, podcasting, website maintenance, PR, online PSAs, and more.

04/27/2020

Goal: Together with the rest of the Wisconsin Veteran Foundation Board of Directors, the Board Director works closely with the President and Officers, Directors, committees, and volunteers, and performs other duties as assigned by the President.

Duties and Responsibilities:

∙ Understand the roles, responsibilities and liabilities of
serving as Director on the Board.
∙ Prepare for and attend each Board meeting by reading
material distributed prior to the meeting.
∙ Serve on committee(s) and actively participate in the
proceedings.
∙ Make a personal financial contribution to the organization,
meeting the guidelines determined by the Board.
∙ Guide as well as participate in fundraising efforts of the
Foundation.
∙ Share resources and talents as well as expertise and
contacts and identify individuals for potential membership
on the Foundation’s Board of Directors and its committees.
∙ Serve as an advocate of the Foundation to other constituent
groups.
∙ Be accessible, at least by telephone, to the Board of
Directors, committee members, and any Foundation
volunteers – when the need arises.
∙ Contribute working on Board-related meetings, activities,
special projects, committee assignments, donor visits, etc.
on behalf of the Foundation.
∙ Fulfill commitments within the agreed-upon deadlines.
∙ Gets to know other Board and committee members and
builds a collegial working relationship to consensus.
∙ Hold in confidence any proprietary information given to or
by Foundation Board of Directors.
∙ Take initiative and provide leadership in moving the
Foundation forward.

Qualifications:

∙ Knowledge of and commitment to the Veteran community,
the Foundation’s Vision, Mission, Goals and objectives,
programs, activities, etc.
∙ Specific experience and or knowledge in at least one
management area or a field related to the Foundation’s
Vision, Mission, Goals and objectives, programs, services,
etc.
∙ Ability to work as an active member of a Veteran-centric
team.
∙ Adequate time availability.

03/28/2020

Wisconsin’s veterans have given their all when either asked to serve or recognized their personal duty to serve. And while many who served in the military come home and restart their lives, many have difficulties.

To serve requires developing what is known as a “war mentality” i.e., you are part of group whose mission is to respond to a designated threat. You come from a civilian mentality which is broken down and reshaped into the war mentality - taking orders, responding with others as a single unit, and maintain heightened vigilance.

Veterans from Vietnam to Afghanistan were trained in this war mentality. Since 9-11 we have distilled and refined this mentality many times over. For many service members this transition has made them living war machines. They fight more for their brotherhood than their country. They experience conflict around them, some are casualties of the war and many unwittingly absorb the horrors of war mentally.

Following their service they are expected to be resilient and change back into their civilian mentality, not with training, not with the desensitization of a war mentality, but with a piece of paper that states, “Honorably Discharged.”

The return to civilian life for service men and women is as jarring as was entertaining the military. Returning home to a less scheduled life, readjusting to family life, trying to seek employment, or considering education.

For many military service follows the veteran home because of a physical wound or injury. Some translations are complicated by psychological injuries stemming from the war mentality, conflicts the veteran experienced, or the inability to transition from military to civilian life.

In the months to come the Wisconsin Veterans Foundation, Inc. will have posts discussing service members transition to civilian life.
We are also interested in your stories of transition.

We want your positive as well as negative experiences transitioning from active duty to civilian life. However, there are two requirements no bashing of the military or the VA and no foul language. We want your story whether from the Vietnam Era or starting the third decade of the War on Terrorism.