By Teresa Kennedy

On October 20^th I was honored to join several fellow members of Veterans for American Ideals in attending a dinner in Baltimore hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. We were invited to be part of a special moment as they welcomed their international leader, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad.

This blog is authored by guest contributor John Falcone, President of the Graduate chapter of Princeton University’s Student Veterans Alliance.

This past Saturday, on a beautiful fall morning in New Jersey, I along with my fellow students and faculty of Princeton University’s Student Veterans Alliance met with recently resettled refugees at Starbucks on Nassau Street. It was part of the ongoing SIV Sips program between Vets for American Ideals and Starbucks, through which veterans and refugees come together for coffee and conversation.

“It doesn’t really matter to me, and I don’t think it matters to Maytham, that I was born here and was in the U.S. military and that he was born in Iraq and was an ally and an interpreter, because we experienced the same thing, and that’s what matters,” says U.S. Army veteran Travis Weiner. 

Fiona Tomlin and Elaina Stephenson

Last Tuesday seventeen years since the 9/11 attacks, about 150 people showed up to DC Improv for a night of storytelling.

Each year, September 11^th remains a sorrowful commemoration of those we lost in the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. But it has also become a day of service.

Elaina Stephenson and Fiona Tomlin

September 19, 2018

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