We have quite a bit going on right now with Social Security Disability, MED Board and PEB. I have been meaning to get these guest posts on here for a while now, so going to start adding them in when I have too much on my plate. I welcome family members, Veterans and organizations that live, work, or help our Veterans and their families with PTSD and/or TBI. Please Welcome them all. ~Uncle Sam's Mistress
Hi everyone! First, I
want to say thank you to Uncle Sam’s Mistress for letting me guest blog on her
site. The project I’m here to talk about
today, Veteran’s
Surplus, is very near and dear to my heart.
Unfortunately, I am a tiny voice in the blogging world and haven’t been
able to get it off the ground on my own.
I’m so grateful that USM is willing to let me use her platform to get
the word out.
Before I go into the details of VS, I will tell you a little
about myself. My name is Brittany,
I’m a semi-anonymous blogger at Delightfully
Awkward. My blog falls in the “daily
rambles” category because I talk about pretty much any and everything. Some are veteran
specific issues, some are education related (especially lately, with graduate
school drama), some are about being a Southern
transplant (although not for much longer!)…you get my point. But I’m not here to talk about myself. I’m here to talk about my project, Veteran’s
Surplus.
Veteran’s
Surplus is an idea that I came up with because I felt alone. When my husband first joined the Army, I felt
alone (this seems to be a pattern in my life, huh). Then, I was blessed to find a wonderful (and
large) online community of Army Wives who were my lifeline when I had no idea
what was going on. Once my husband ETS’d
(meaning his contract ended), I hoped for a Veteran version of the same thing. You see, my active duty friends no longer
understood the position we were in. The
people who had once provided me with PCS and re-deployment were unable to help
with the G.I. Bill or disability services.
We may not be active duty any more, but I assure we do not feel like
civilians (and civilians can definitely tell we are not like them). I often feel like I’m living in an odd limbo
world, where I don’t quite belong to either sector.
So I created Veteran’s
Surplus. The goal of VS is to be a
master “link list.” Basically, I want
anyone in the veteran community (veterans, veteran spouses, veteran children,
veteran workers…anyone who deals with veterans) to provide a link to their blog
here. I will then put all of these blog links in
one list, on the VS page. I also ask
that if you provide your blog link, you take the Veteran’s Surplus button and
put it on your blog. Then anyone who
clicks the button will be brought to the VS page and have the opportunity to
not only share their own blog, but to find other blogs (and people) who are
dealing with the same issues. Whether
you are a blog that focuses solely on Veteran issues such as Uncle Sam’s
Mistress, or you are a jumble of things that just happen to include Veteran
topics (such as me), I highly encourage let’s be honest, I beg you to come link up. This project means so much to me, and I think
it could have a wonderful impact if done properly. But I can’t do it alone- my one little blog
is hardly much of a list! I want to help
bring the veteran community together, and I hope you will help me in that quest.
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