I agree with donating to veterans' charities but, there is always one good organization in there, please go to https://www.charitynavigator.org/ and check out operating expenses to their total budget. Many pay out almost as much as they get in operating expenses and have very little to actually help veterans.

You ask why I am skeptical of these organizations, here is the reason I started diving into many of these things. I came back from Iraq and was laid up for 2 years because of surgeries and such and could not just right into the work field and took so long for veteran benefits and such to get approved and started. I asked for help from the veterans organizations and they never had anything to help. From that, we lost our house and sold just about everything we had to start over again. Which was so stressful for my family that I have many regrets from that.

I think it would be much better to do a benefit in the community to help a veteran in your community because the money raised actually goes to the veteran and not an organization.

I am not bitter, well maybe a little, but I believe there are better ways than donating to a veteran organization to help veterans in each of our communities.

Ok, rant is done! I just know that there are better and more ways to help veterans that using many of the veteran organizations.