Darwin Belt, co-founder and manager of WayAround, will be the featured guest speaker at next Tuesday evening’s BVA Auxiliary (BVAA) Town Hall. Darwin has a truly amazing and inspirational life story. The meeting, held customarily every two months on the first Tuesday, will begin at 8:00pm Eastern Time. Please click here or on the full link below to join. For further information, contact BVAA National President Kenneth Witt at bvaanationalpresident@gmail.com or at 910-633-5983. Kenneth Witt is

For BVA members and their families who celebrate the holiday, Happy Halloween! Come tomorrow morning, those with leftover candy or excess candy collected from trick-or-treating can donate it to support a good cause, that of providing a few sweets to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers, Military installations, and Guard/Reserve units that have registered and been approved to receive the collected candy. Soldiers’ Angels Treats for Troops is a Halloween Candy collection program where local

Extreme sports athlete, National Geographic 2015 Adventurer of the Year, former Navy Petty Officer 1st Class, and BVA member Lonnie Bedwell has made his dream of reaching the highest peak on each of the Earth’s seven continents a reality, the first blind person ever to do so. On October 17, he and his companions made it to the top of Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya in Indonesian, literally meaning Victorious Peak), the last on his “beyond

Despite the current federal government shutdown, hopefully resolved prior to Veterans Day, the Veterans Day National Committee of which BVA is a member continues to move forward with the planned activities for the annual ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on November 11. The VSO breakfast is a hallmark of the day, but will this year be held away from the White House due to the renovations in progress there. Subsequent activities usually include a traditional