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Welcome to all things finance. I will be writing monthly to discuss a range of financial topics including terminology, options, and strategy. You can expect segments on budgeting, credit, vehicles for retirement savings, qualified vs. non-qualified funds, tax implications, risk tolerance, investing, compound interest, and the zero floor. If you can’t make heads
This story is about green beans, a veteran and his family, and a dog, or dogs, to be more precise. The story starts in the desert warzone of Iraq with soldier Sean Brown. Sean joined the U.S. Army in 2006 and served in the Intelligence and Quartermaster Corps. Sean followed
Almost every company says it wants to hire more veterans, but it often fails. One reason for failure is that it thinks hiring veterans is the only step when it is just step one. A company may desire to hire more veterans, but to retain them, it must be willing
Celebrate the Women Veteran with Fern Kinion Fern Kinion was born in 1937 and will celebrate her 87th Birthday this year. She was born just two years before the release of The Wizard of Oz in August 1939. In speaking with Fern, you can’t help but be reminded of Dorothy
Not all of them are heroes. But they are, as we are, human beings with faults who make mistakes, and in the case of this story, people who must live the rest of their lives with a dreadful understanding. We will get to that…. Let’s begin in September 2009. Our
Jesse’s life, molded by a Vietnam vet father’s PTSD, embodies service & compassion, caring for his uncle & supporting local veterans.
K9’s Veterans Day, March 13 Dogs have held crucial roles in American conflicts since the Civil War. Nearly 5000 K9s served in the Vietnam War, where their exceptional hearing and sense of smell helped to save a reported ten thousand U.S. Troops. Their effectiveness put a bounty on their heads.
The Nurses Roughly 5000 nurses served in Vietnam. What they saw could never be imagined, even in the darkest nightmare. They were there, ready as the helicopters arrived with the torn and mangled. They would rush in the heat and gloom to fight for the lives of those broken around
Hindsight is bewildering. The idea that you are headed in one direction only to be redirected into a life you could never have imagined is surreal. And now you have a life you wouldn’t trade now for the world. The United States came out with the draft lottery system in
Big Shoes to Fill The American G.I. of the Vietnam era had big shoes to fill. They were the sons and daughters of the “Greatest Generation.” They had grown up in 1950s America, where gathering around the family radio for news, playing board games, riding bikes, and playing toy soldiers
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