At our March Dinner, the foundation honored and recognized our executive secretary Wendy Menjivar for her dedication to the foundation and the vets we serve. Wendy is a well loved and respected member of this foundation. She keeps everything flying straight around here- from organizing events to administration, from baby showers, to Christmas, to selling fireworks; she’s in the middle …
We’ll always remember Valentine’s Day 2015. We love things that work and learning how and why they work…We have come to the conclusion that our kids are probably the most important members of our recovery, re-integration to civilian world, social interaction etc, etc TEAM. Wherever the kids go the parents follow, if the parents follow, as they usually do, they …
Another great opportunity to come together with the veterans, their families, and the community. One of those days we love and enjoy, at least for a little while “come on get happy, relax and have some fun” is what we do here at Wounded Heroes of America. Click here to view gallery
Today the Home Depot Foundation/Home Depot of Carson CA and Wounded Heroes of America and a bunch of Home Depot volunteer partnered up to make life a little easier for one of our Wounded Veterans. We at WHOA have had a long standing belief, and advocated the point, that the resources that are necessary to improve the lives of our …
2015 started out with the biggest turnout to date at El Cholo Restaurant. It was hard to find a seat. We had lots of new vets join us, some traveled hours just to break a little with bread with us. Our monthly dinner get-together to us represents the time when we can all come, hang out, bring the kids and …
It’s been a busy December for Santa and his helpers at Wounded Heroes of America, but worth every minute. These are some of the many photos of happy children when Santa came to visit. Lots of milk and cookies and lots of love going around. Thank you to all those that helped make Christmas special this year. We at WHOA …
Wrapping and shipping begins. This is what our office looked liked on Saturday Dec 6, 2014. This will be a familiar scene until Christmas. Click here to view gallery
Dec 4th – getting started Christmas 2014 has begun…This will be an “All Hands on Deck” month at WHOA, but luckily we have great friends and volunteers that donate their time and money, and in many case both. We’ve started by decorating boxes and putting them to work collecting toys. We’re truly are blessed in that we have some great …
Veterans Day 2014 – An evening at the Comedy and Magic club- Hermosa Beach CA. We started Veterans Day honoring our veterans at the Redondo Beach Veterans Memorial ceremony and finished the day with a night of laughter. Luciano Aguilar from Hound Squad and a great friend, of WHOA along with rapper Senen (Sen Dog) Reyes from legendary band Cypress …
Nov. 20, 2014 was WHOA’s annual turkey giveaway at El Cholo Restaurant in La Habra, CA. This is a great example of the great friends and relationships we have made in the community. Thanks to Ron Salisbury, owner of the El Cholo restaurants, our Vets have a place to come together every month. And let’s not forget Vance Bennett of …
