Our Mission

First and foremost our mission is to ensure that there is a Veterans Day Parade for the East Valley. Mesa is centrally located in the East Valley and is a natural location to have the parade. The reason for the parade is to honor and remember our Veterans. It is not about political causes, it is not to pass judgement on where our goverment chooses to send our troops, it is about our servicemen and women, past, present and future.

It doesn't help to have a parade if no one knows about it, so that makes part of our mission to raise awareness in our community and connect people to our veterans so they know it is their friends, relatives and neighbors we are talking about, not someone they don't know on a TV in a foreign land. It's real, it's here and it's part of their community.

We have chosen to have a secondary mission, and that is to help our veterans, whether it's to send comfort items to troops serving, or to provide links to resources in the community to help them transition to a civilian life.


Community is a key word as we hope to build a community of veterans in the area, raise awareness of the veterans in the civilian community and become known as a community that cares about our service members and will never forget what they have done so that we may live free lives. It is our passion, commitment and your support that will ensure this can be done.

Think about this as you go about your daily lives. As you go to work, do you worry about your car exploding as it passes over a bomb planted the night before? Our Veterans do. As you go to work, do you wonder who will show up, and who won't because of serious injury or death? Our Veterans do. As you go to work, will you stay there for 9 months or a year or more, wondering about how things are going back home, what your kids are doing, how your spouse is holding up with added responsibilities and stress of wondering if you will ever come home, of not being able to give them a hug and kiss at night? Our veterans do. To be taken from that which is familiar and put in a foreign land and asked to do things that don't come naturally, to be away from family, friends and relatives, not knowing if you have a job when you come back or even if you come back, to be psychologically changed. This is the life of an American soldier, day in and day out. While we shop, go to movies, eat out, see our family, drive our cars and make decent money, our soldiers are living through hell on a daily basis. The least we can do is to give them a good parade and say thanks for a job well done. The least we can do is to send care packages to try to tie them to something from back home and brighten up their day. The least we can do is to provide employment and resources for getting back into civilian life when they come home and to provide support for those families of service members that that aren't so fortunate.

Fast Facts:

Over 12% of all Arizonans are Veterans, that is 1 in 8 or over half a million.

Thank you so much for your support, your patriotism and your passion for showing our veterans that you care. It means the world to them.

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Thank You!