WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:08.720 Multiple people in my family clean my father, are veterans. 2 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:10.960 Troops that have been to war and now they're back. 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:13.640 And think and be grateful for their service. 4 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:17.760 Sacrifice, love for their country, just unselfishness, all that they 5 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:18.559 do for us. 6 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:22.000 There are some people in this country who take extraordinary 7 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:24.920 steps to provide for the freedom and security. 8 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:26.640 We forget that those people exist. 9 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:30.600 We know them as the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, 10 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:37.640 and Coast Guard. They call themselves soldiers, seals, rangers, airmen, sailors, 11 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:39.159 devil dogs. 12 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:40.240 And so much more. 13 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:47.039 We call them fathers, brothers, sons and husbands, mothers, daughters, 14 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:52.479 sisters and wives. We call them friend and neighbor. These 15 00:00:52.560 --> 00:01:00.640 veterans answered the call. Now we answer Theirs are the 16 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:05.439 best our country has to offer, and we love them. Today, 17 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:12.879 we honor them and we serve this. David Malsby is 18 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:16.799 your host, and he welcomes you to this community of veterans. 19 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:21.840 As together we are building the road to hope. 20 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.359 And indeed we are glad to have you along. 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That has been 73 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:12.800 a while. 74 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:18.399 Yeah. I graduated from Campo about close to two years ago. 75 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:23.199 I went in back in August first of twenty twenty two. 76 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:30.079 My life basically came undone. Actually had a good friend 77 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.240 that was still his staff there that brought me in 78 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.519 and coming to Camp Hoe changed my life. 79 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:42.160 And you were Army Marines, Marine Corps, Yes, sir, and 80 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.680 you deployed twice Iraq, two times direct because the first 81 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:48.399 time wasn't enough. You just wanted a little more something 82 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:48.720 like that. 83 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:49.560 Something like that. 84 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:50.399 That's where they sent you. 85 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:56.120 Guess what you're doing. Yay, what years did you boy? Yeah? 86 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.759 What years did you deploy? Five and seven? 87 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:08.439 Okay, so not atypical. Your second appoint was those seven, 88 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:12.600 So that means it was fifteen years after that, roughly 89 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:14.240 before you got the camp. 90 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:16.600 Hope just the math is correct. 91 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:17.560 Yeah, somewhere in there. 92 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:19.120 I'm bad at math. Yeah, me too. 93 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.240 Uh yeah, numbers, they get in the way a thing 94 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:25.399 of that. I don't understand them. Uh, but yeah, I 95 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:26.959 took it a little while before you found your way 96 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.879 to us. 97 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:38.000 Yeah. Good fifteen years like you said. But luckily one 98 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:40.759 of my good friends who was a staff or still 99 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.279 a staff member there, I heard of what was going 100 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:50.279 on with me and next day had me on the 101 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:54.680 phone with Camp Hope trying to get me into the program. 102 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:58.480 Glad you did. I'm glad you're still with us. Grateful 103 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:02.319 for what you do. Thank you appreciated. I mentally all right, Derek, 104 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.279 I want to introduce yourself to the world. 105 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:09.800 I'm Derek Jolly Army. Uh. I was born in love. 106 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:15.120 It and uh basically raised in Houston here Spring Branch area. 107 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:18.160 How old were you when you moved to Houston. 108 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:20.560 I guess around three or four. 109 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:23.240 Oh okay, so you don't remember at all. It's going 110 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:26.360 to say that it's been cold here this past week. 111 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:27.759 Yeah and cold. 112 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.439 Yeah, it's gonna say with the wind it was well. 113 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:33.160 I was not a fan leave It. 114 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.759 I didn't meet too many people that were, but love 115 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:40.040 It can definitely do that on the regular. 116 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:43.000 Oh yeah, there's nothing, no trees. Yeah, that's wind. 117 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:47.439 Blocked the wind, Yes, sir, reminds me of my childhood 118 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.040 Oklahoma City, like it would. It would get that way 119 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:52.480 a few times every winter. Like I didn't like it then, 120 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:53.720 I sure don't like it now. 121 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.079 People that lived there, they got to act like they 122 00:06:58.199 --> 00:06:59.160 like it, I believe. 123 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:04.879 Yeah, maybe I don't know. It's what you're used to, 124 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:07.839 whatever you know, grow up in. It's just normal. It's 125 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:08.399 whatever it is. 126 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:08.759 It is. 127 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.279 Yeah, I keep moving further south, Like I moved from 128 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.199 Oklahoma City to Dallas, which is about three and a 129 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.040 half four hours south of Oklahoma City, lived there ten years. 130 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.560 Then I moved to Houston, another four hours south. Like 131 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.120 I can't move any further south unless I buy a boat, 132 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:27.240 and I don't want to buy a boat. I sure 133 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:28.920 don't want to live in a boat in the middle 134 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.920 of the Gulf of America or whatever you choose to 135 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:35.560 call it. But uh hmm, yeah, too cold. All right, 136 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:37.519 we're gonna have to take a quick break. A reminder. 137 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:40.759 Eight seven seven seven to one seven seventy eight seventy 138 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:44.600 three is our combat trauma support line. Eight seven seven 139 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.240 seven one seven seventy eight seventy three. What you must 140 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:50.600 know about that number is this a combat that will 141 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.720 answer the phone twenty four seven three sixty five eight 142 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:56.360 seven seven seven one seven seventy eight seventy three, will 143 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:09.319 be right back and were welcome back Road to Hope Radio. 144 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:14.720 David Malsby here got Derek that State's Army currently in 145 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:18.319 our program at Camp Hope, Georgia, United States rings a 146 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:22.600 veteran and a graduate of Camp Hope, current staff member 147 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:25.759 at Camp Hope. All right, Derek, you mentioned you were 148 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:31.399 from originally from Lovegood, grew up in the Houston area, right, correct, 149 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:37.840 So what what caused you to join the army? 150 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:45.600 Just be that I saw myself joining the military early 151 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:47.519 before I got out of high school. 152 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:49.759 Did you join right out of high school? 153 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:51.159 Shortly thereafter? 154 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:54.480 I worked at a local gas station everywhere back when 155 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:55.639 you still pump gas. 156 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:01.759 Yeah, just dated yourself a little, yeah, an idees, I 157 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:04.840 do remember those days. I remember anyway, go ahead. 158 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:07.039 Yeah, And. 159 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.120 Getting out of high school, I didn't really have any 160 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:17.399 plans for college, even though to me that was what 161 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:21.039 you're supposed to do. But that's not what I did. 162 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:24.240 I joint went to talk to the army. If I 163 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.679 had walked into the Marines, I probably would have been 164 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:31.080 the Marine, but I walked into the Army place there 165 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.879 and they took me in and I joined the Infantry 166 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:38.960 at my choice. What year was it, That was probably 167 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:45.519 eighty six, and went to basic training and Benning Fort Benning, 168 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:52.360 Georgia and stationed at Fort Ord, California, which was closed 169 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:55.600 now they've closed it down after some time after I left. 170 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:58.919 Did you have any family in the military or just 171 00:09:58.960 --> 00:09:59.720 you were the first one. 172 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.759 I had an uncle on my mom's side there that 173 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:08.200 was Air Force, and I want to say he was 174 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:11.720 a lieutenant colonel or something like that, but he was 175 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:15.879 high ranking. He was in Vietnam, but he stayed off 176 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:17.039 the ground and in the air. 177 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:22.159 Gotcha, which could be good and could be not so 178 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:23.960 good because the way you're flying. 179 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.720 Yes, sir, he was in a big bird, big plane, 180 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:27.879 way high up there. 181 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:31.360 Got you okay? 182 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.279 So you joined eighty six ish, Yeah, and you deployed 183 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:40.360 where it went to Panama eighty eight eighty nine, Noriega. 184 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:44.840 If anybody remembers Daega, we were there trying to hunt 185 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:49.320 him down on get him huge news at the time. 186 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:53.320 He was huge news, it was, and we did back then. 187 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:56.120 You didn't have the cameras you got these days where 188 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:58.759 you got one on your helmet and everything. The only 189 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.600 camera I had was one of those throw away cardboard 190 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:09.679 Kodak cameras, and so there weren't many, no no media 191 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:13.159 with us, traveling with us or anything like that. But 192 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.879 they did catch some of it somehow. I didn't never 193 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.559 see how they did that. But yeah, it was short, 194 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:26.399 luckily short lived, and we we we nabbed him and 195 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:27.559 got the job done. 196 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:29.879 It was huge news. 197 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:31.600 That'll call that very vividly. 198 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:33.840 Yeah. 199 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:36.200 So that was eighty. 200 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:41.519 Eight, eighty eighty eight, No, yeah, eighty eight, eighty nine. 201 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:45.840 Yeah, somewhere in there. Yeah, okay, all right, what did 202 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:46.559 you do when you came. 203 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:54.120 Home went back to training? How long did you. 204 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:54.919 Stay in the army? 205 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:59.080 Oh the eighty seven to ninety two. 206 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:05.759 When I got out, I. 207 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.840 Left out the gate and there was not much information, 208 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:12.200 you believing about what's gonna lapping out on the other side. 209 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:14.720 I couldn't believe I was driving out the gate. I 210 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:16.360 figured they were going to be sent, you know, holding 211 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.919 us back for Iraq and stuff. But luckily I got 212 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:21.519 out the gate. 213 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:22.960 A lot of my. 214 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:27.600 Battle buddies, I guess we call them, and did get 215 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:31.639 recalled and just basically went to Germany or Hawaii, which 216 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:34.960 would have been nice, but they held down the fort while. 217 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:40.679 Everybody else was deployed to two Iraq. Yeah. 218 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:46.559 I never heard anybody complain about either in uh Hawaii 219 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.080 or Germany. I've never heard any comments about either one 220 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:49.840 of those stations. 221 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:53.519 And there were people stationed in Panama too, you know, yeah, 222 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:56.559 yeah with the way, Yeah, but that's not a lot. 223 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:58.159 Of smiling faces about that one. 224 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:00.919 It's pretty down there. 225 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:08.000 Yeah, not been there, and I'm okay with that, completely 226 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:11.000 fine with not having been there, nor planning ongoing there. 227 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:14.159 It's not on my not on my bucket list right now. 228 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:17.879 You want to go back, I wouldn't mind visiting a 229 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:24.080 lot safer place nowadays, absolutely, since we did what we did, 230 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:30.360 I know it's become a popular place for Americans business wise, 231 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:36.919 beach hotels and building their empire down there. Yeah, I 232 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:41.440 wouldn't mind going back and following them footsteps to see 233 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:42.919 how things have changed. 234 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.879 I think a lot of guys I've heard that a lot, 235 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.919 and I know of some guys, for instance, a number 236 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:54.120 of Vietnam Vets that take trips back, yeah, of decades 237 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:55.960 literally decades later. 238 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:59.799 And it helps a lot of things to see what 239 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:04.759 came out of something that was not typically very good 240 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:05.399 at the time. 241 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:09.440 George, you ever have a desire to go back and 242 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:14.519 revisit that, Nope, you know, Iraq and Afghanistan or definitely 243 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:18.000 exceptions to that rule. I'm not sure anybody wants to 244 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:21.559 go back to either one of those places. Yeah, remind 245 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:23.519 me again where you said you were deployed those two times. 246 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.320 I'll come and I saw it, Okay. 247 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:29.519 Yeah, just the names enough for me, Like, Nope, not mine, 248 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:30.919 not my place. 249 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:32.480 It does sound nice. 250 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:35.639 Yeah, when it's time to plan the family vacation, that 251 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.759 is not on uh, that is not on the list, 252 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:40.639 Like we're not going. 253 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:41.080 To go there. 254 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:46.879 Uh. Quick reminder for information about Camp Hope as well 255 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.320 as our support groups for both combat veteran support groups 256 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.159 as well as family support groups. And I'll also mention 257 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:57.720 and I'll get into a little bit of why. Also 258 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:04.519 Law Enforcement First Responders PTSDUSA dot org is our website 259 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:08.919 all the information about our programs, both the intern housing 260 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:12.639 at Camp Hope support groups that happened across the state 261 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:14.879 of Texas, a few different cities across the country, and 262 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:19.840 then virtually so from virtually anywhere you can join those, 263 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:23.799 but I do want to spend just a minute on 264 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:29.720 the law enforcement and first responders portion of that. The 265 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:35.279 issue of PTSD is just as prevalent, if not more so, 266 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:41.600 in law enforcement first responders in comparison to what's gone 267 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:46.799 on in our veteran community. The need is great. It's 268 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.080 pressed on my mind a little bit more this week. 269 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:51.159 This past week, we had. 270 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:52.360 A number of. 271 00:15:53.799 --> 00:16:04.600 Local law enforcement officials, constables, sheriffs from the surrounding Houston 272 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:08.759 area out to Camp Hope and then we were able 273 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:11.960 to spend actually a great deal of time. We spend 274 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:15.200 about three hours together with them in total and talk 275 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:17.039 a lot about not only what we do at Camp 276 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.799 Hopes that they understand what happens there, but also our 277 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:23.679 outreach program and just how critically important is for us 278 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.159 to have a good relationship with law enforcement. And we 279 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:29.080 talked with them about a couple of issues that we've 280 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:35.120 had one particular local agency. But these folks were just fantastic. 281 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:38.960 They loved hearing what we were doing, very supportive of 282 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:42.759 what we're doing, looking forward to building on those relationships 283 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:44.480 because at the end of the day, we all want 284 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:47.720 the same thing, so they're encountering obviously a number of 285 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:50.159 mental health issues as they go about their job with 286 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:53.320 law enforcement first responders, for them to know that we're 287 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:57.399 here and our outreach teams already and able and equipped 288 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:00.159 to step in and help and go alongside them to 289 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:03.399 help in some of those issues. But we also one 290 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.440 of the gentlemen was there was an FBI agent who 291 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.359 had just the night before he'd been up. When he 292 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:13.599 got to our place, he'd been up for thirty straight hours, 293 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:15.519 and when he got to our place, he was one 294 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.680 of the FBI agents that took down I think it 295 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:25.799 was fourteen Bandido gang members and that he had just 296 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.519 come from doing that, and you could tell it was 297 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.240 it had been a rough, rough time after that's a 298 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.720 culmination of a six year investigation. So you know, those 299 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:38.279 guys are absolutely exhausted. But just for you to know 300 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:43.240 there is a place ptsdusa dot org. We will do 301 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:46.920 everything we can to support our law enforcement first responder community, 302 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:49.960 and everything we do is absolutely at zero cost to 303 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:53.400 the veteran of their family. PTSDUSA dot org be right 304 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:55.279 back with more Road to Hope Radio in just a moment, 305 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:10.640 and we welcome you back Road to Hope Radio. Glad 306 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:14.359 to have you along again the website for all things 307 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.480 that we do at the PTSD Foundation of America's PTSD 308 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:22.880 post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSDUSA dot org. On social media 309 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:27.960 also PTSD USA that's on X on Facebook, Instagram, it's 310 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:34.279 PTSD Foundation of America. For show information, and we'll also comment. 311 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:38.799 Sometimes we don't do this with the Foundation. Sometimes with 312 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:45.720 the show's Facebook page, we'll sometimes share military related news, 313 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:50.559 veteran related news, items that don't necessarily really make the 314 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:55.759 major news. So follow us on Road to Hope Radio 315 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.640 on our Facebook page and you can keep up with 316 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.720 some of the those things. We'll also post some of 317 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:07.720 the events going on in support of the PTSD Foundation 318 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:14.640 of America this weekend as we air this show this Saturday. 319 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:19.119 There was a wonderful event in the Orlando, Florida area 320 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:23.400 in support of the foundation in our chapter in Florida 321 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.440 where we serve a little over two hundred veterans, just 322 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.920 through that one chapter, and it's really just I believe 323 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:35.759 four staff that are serving those two hundred plus veterans. 324 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:41.920 And that's that's the last number I heard. It may 325 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:44.319 be much more than that by now, but the last 326 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:46.039 number I heard it was a little over two hundred 327 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:49.640 vets that we do support work with their in the 328 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.079 Florida area. So big thanks to everybody who is a 329 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:55.599 part of that event in support of that chapter and 330 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:57.440 what we do in the Florida area. So thank you 331 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:59.880 very much. And again, if you're following us on so 332 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.759 social mediall seat those events coming up if you'd like 333 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:09.920 to participate coming up you are March April May. We 334 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:19.160 have ours. We have two we call event seasons. The 335 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:24.240 big one is from Labor Day through like the first 336 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:27.880 week of December. That time is just one big blur 337 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:35.240 in dealing with the fundraising events, speaking opportunities. That's number one. 338 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:40.920 But number two is like now, so March one through 339 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:46.720 about May the first, it's a very busy time. After 340 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:50.480 that you kind of get into the whole graduation season's 341 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.559 marriage or wedding ceremonies and all, you know, vacations. Everybody's 342 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:56.680 trying to get out of town. Kids at our school. 343 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:01.640 But this is are entering that busy time. So there's 344 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:05.759 a lot of events coming up in the Houston area 345 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:08.559 as well as Dallas area. Those in the Dallas Fort 346 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:12.599 Worth metroplex got a golf tournament coming on up up there. 347 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:19.480 We have I think three golf tournaments in the next 348 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:23.160 just a few weeks here in the Houston area. So 349 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:28.400 all those, all those events, information is shared with how 350 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:31.079 you can participate those, whether it's just being there, whether 351 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:36.680 it's volunteering to help thing running, or your business owner, 352 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:40.880 small business owner, you'd like to be a sponsor. Lots 353 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.839 of opportunities to be involved in fundraisers, and we don't 354 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.079 talk about that a lot, but I will just tell 355 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:53.240 you this is how we are able to do what 356 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:56.400 we do. So when a veteran calls that crisis line 357 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:59.640 eight seven seven seven one seven seventy eight seventy three, 358 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:03.799 we want to make sure that we are able to 359 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:06.920 support them and whatever way that is. For some it 360 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:09.559 is making their way to Camp Hope. So we will 361 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:11.759 buy the airline ticket, we will take care of all 362 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:16.079 those things. Won't cost them anything, won't cost their family anything. 363 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:18.799 We take care of all that. Well, we don't have 364 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:20.920 just you know, as my mom used to say, there's 365 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:24.720 no tree in the backyard that just grows cash. It 366 00:22:24.759 --> 00:22:28.559 is people who care, people who learn about what's going 367 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:30.960 on in our veteran community and they care enough to 368 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:34.240 do something about it. So for some that's just they 369 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:36.400 don't have time, but they have money, so they'll just 370 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:39.480 write a check. Some can't write a big check, but 371 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:43.079 they can do something, and maybe it's participating in an 372 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:46.279 event like a five K or something like that that's 373 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:50.839 local to them. So there's multiple, multiple ways to get 374 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.920 involved in support what we do. But if you like 375 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:56.880 hearing these stories that we share each and every week, 376 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.599 there's always someone here from our interim housing program at 377 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:05.559 Camp Hope. Just see your understanding. Just a real big picture, 378 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:09.920 real fast. It's roughly one hundred and fifty dollars a 379 00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:14.599 day to take care of our veteran at Camp Hope. Now, 380 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:17.319 if we have let's say the moment, I think it's 381 00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:21.279 somewhere around seventy living on campus. Some of you are 382 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:25.319 better at math than I am, but that's seventy times 383 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:29.279 one hundred and fifty every single day. So you extrapolate 384 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:32.079 that across the course for a year, it's a fair 385 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:36.480 chunk of change. So the only way we're able to 386 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:42.039 do that. I heard a story this past week as 387 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:45.200 we were touring some folks through our campus. One of 388 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:50.559 the vets had come to us from being incarcerated. When 389 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:52.759 he arrived at camp, which George, this is your job. 390 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:56.039 Right when they arrive at camp, you're one of, if 391 00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:57.960 not the first person that they see. 392 00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:00.839 Yeah, first person that day come in and see. 393 00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:05.279 So you're handling what we call the intake process. Yes, sir, Yeah, 394 00:24:05.319 --> 00:24:07.519 So this particular guy was telling us when he came in, 395 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:09.440 and I forget where he had been incarcerat. I think 396 00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:13.640 it was somewhere in Georgia. When he came in, he 397 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:18.480 had a bag like a think of a grocery bag 398 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:20.200 when you go grocery, and this is what he had. 399 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:26.279 He had two pair of jail issued underwear and I 400 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:29.559 think two pair of socks and what he was wearing, 401 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:33.480