While Ben and I are still on vacation and I’m really not supposed to be working, I did want to throw a post up real quick. The world doesn’t stop and neither does pain and suffering. I know that when we get back, there will be more hardships to tackle, more people that need a hand, more outreach that needs to be done. If I don’t post, money doesn’t get donated. If money doesn’t get donated, it makes it harder to do what we do. Recently there was a horrible tornado that ripped through multiple counties of Mississippi and Alabama. Ben and I are both from those states, either grew up in or born in, so this is very personal. We also have friends and family that live in those areas. We are asking for donations so we can get a team down there, supplies down there, and help out some families that desperately need it right now. There are still people trapped, needing to be cut out of their homes. It is completely heartbreaking and we want to do what we can.
We Are The Dead
We are the Dead is a sister organization to Flanders Fields, to carry their mission to those encountered on the streets, on the dope track, in the prisons and in the hell of addiction or sex trafficking who aren't veterans. Nobody on the Flanders team will step over the dead bodies of civilians to save a vet, but within the confines of the charter, funding can only be allocated to veterans. The need to stand up a second org focused on non-veteran funding for rescues and recoveries was immediately apparent, and to date, the Flanders team has been funding these efforts out of their own pockets, but no more! We are the Dead gets it's name from the same poem by LtCol John McCrae that Flanders Fields got it's name from, which reads in part: "
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields."
We are here to restore life to those who were once dead to their addictions and the streets, for we were once the dead ourselves.