Founded by a group of Vietnam veterans in the early 1980s, VietNow is an organization dedicated to helping American veterans. What began in a basement in Rockford, Illinois, has grown into a nationwide organization open to veterans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces from 1957 until the present day. VietNow initially offered veterans a forum in which to share their experiences.

Legend has it that in Vietnam, sometime in 1969, two soldiers from the same hometown (Rockford, Illinois) met up with each other on a hilltop near Pleiku ... and promised each other that if they ever made it back home, they would get together sometime for dinner, and to talk over their wartime adventures. Whether or not the legend is true doesn't really matter ... but sometime in the early 1980s, a group of Vietnam veterans did come together to share their experiences, and talk about what Vietnam had meant to them. It soon grew to encompass a wider variety of issues of concern to veterans. For VietNow members, "Veterans Helping Veterans” has become a way of life. Unlike other veterans organizations, VietNow actively includes family and friends in functions.

How AtHome America Helped
In our first year of fundraising efforts for veterans, we collected and donated more than $10,000 to VietNow. The monies enabled VietNow to advance its mission by making a down payment on their first official headquarters. Visit their website at www.vietnow.com

Visit their website at www.vietnow.com