Serve warriors who served us.

"Why Huntsville, Texas?" This is the question my wife and I heard many times after moving here from California. Well, there's something more important than glitz and glamor or climate and beach bunnies. There's the people of Texas. Most of us know about the Congressional chartered Veteran Service Organizations; VFW, American Legion, and DAV. Here in Texas, especially in Huntsville, there is a plethora of small organizations dedicated to helping veterans. The ranch in this video, Ten Mile Ranch, is owned by Tara Burnett, the Executive Director of H.E.A.R.T.S. Veterans Museum and here husband, Roger. As they pondered over what they were going to do with the land, Tara had a dream in which she saw tiny red houses dotting the land. That dream became reality and is named FOB Ten Mile. Instead of Forward Operating Base, FOB Ten Mile is Final Operating Base where bachelor veterans can live out their remaining days in relative freedom. They pay what they can or nothing at all. Knowledge Point Network is another small organization that is providing recreation (literally "re-creation") on FOB Ten Mile. And there are others in Huntsville including Veterans and Patriots United (a residential program for veterans struggling with issues such as addiction and PTSD). There's Operation Red Wings International helping veterans learn strategies to manage Post-traumatic Stress, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, and chronic pain. A local chiropractor donated space for Victory for Veterans to install hyperbaric chambers to treat veterans and first responders with head injuries for free. FOB Rasor provides suicide prevention counselling. And there's more, much more. So, my wife and I usually respond to "Why Huntsville?" simply with "Why not?"