Thank You Steemit Community for Your Heartwarming Support of Military Veterans! #veterans

Thank you Steemit Community for the gracious support on my initiative to start a community benefiting veterans! The tag is #veterans. I must admit the outpouring of support, kind comments, and gratitude was extremely uplifting and overwhelming.

If you haven't yet, please check out and support my first three posts dedicated to this new community to get an overview of what I am hoping to achieve here:

https://steemit.com/veterans/@jdawg/please-help-me-create-steemit-s-new-community-to-support-military-veterans-veterans

https://steemit.com/steemit-veterans/@jdawg/help-me-start-a-steemit-community-for-a-deserving-group

https://steemit.com/steemit-veterans/@jdawg/my-intro-for-steemit-veterans

I want to personally thank a couple of people: Hive account@thejohalfiles & Hive account@aggroed
Thank you both for your unbelievable support! My post would not have received the attention it did, if it were not for you two. I mean that. Thank you!

Please check out Hive account@aggroed's post supporting me and this initiative: https://steemit.com/witness-update/@aggroed/300th-witness-vote-update-watching-minnows-grow-up-quick-from-their-time-in-the-pond-aka-the-minnow-support-project-discord

It truly is amazing what he has done with the @minnowsupportproject in such a short time. I hope to do the same with the #veterans community. In fact, Hive account@aggroed set us veterans up with our own Vet's Channel. This will give us an area to keep in touch, support one another, and grow our Veteran's community. Sign up here: https://discord.gg/HYj4yvw

So far we have 15 members - Hive account@libertylol, Hive account@harleymechanix, Hive account@darrenrobinson, Hive account@lexikon082, Hive account@jacobygrunts, Hive account@mericanhomestead, Hive account@armybelle, Hive account@iggyg85, Hive account@kingdomman, Hive account@prufarchy, Hive account@rotfoot, Hive account@merej99, Hive account@guiltyparties, Hive account@billys
Thank you all for your interest in helping to grow this community!

Please support some fellow veterans' posts:

This is a post by Hive account@lexikon082 for the #hamburgersaintproject. It is a great project honoring the memory of his fellow soldier and dear friend.
https://steemit.com/hamburgersaintproject/@hamburger-saint/we-need-volunteers-for-the-hamburger-saint-project-veterans-a-payitforward-project

This post is by Hive account@guiltyparties where he created an awesome badge for our #veterans community.
https://steemit.com/veteran/@guiltyparties/post-badge-for-veteran-community-project

I have a deep found respect and admiration for active-duty military and veterans and have always wanted to help this group. Steemit has given me the platform to do so. I want this community to be a place where veterans can meet other veterans, a place to share stories, get things off their chest, seek help from others, raise money for veterans in need.

I received mostly appreciation and praise for starting this community. I did come across some people that seemed to confuse my support and gratitude for active-duty military and veterans with me being pro-war. This could not be further from the truth. I do not want my posts to turn into political debates. I simply want to support and help veterans - the people.

If you are a veteran and would like to join our community, please come forward and be counted for! If any of our members or any supporter wants to write a post, please use the tag #veterans. The more we use this tag, the quicker it will get created!

Stay tuned for much more developments! I have a lot planned and will be working together with some other veterans to help grow this community. Thank you all again for your unbelievable, heartwarming support!