Success is comming

Hello everyone,
Again I apologize for taking so long between blogs. I got a job that is taking up a lot of my time and with school, well I don't have enough hours in the day!!! I picked up the "official" bi-laws from the lawyer this week and have an appointment with the CPA on Saturday the 23rd to finalize the 1023 application to the IRS. I am so excited to see this most awesome project moving along. I emailed Oprah a dozen times asking her to do a show on PTSD. Just tonight I went to her web site to suggest it again, low and behold, the home page on her site (oprah.com) has just one question for "do you want to be on the show".....and it is "suffering from PTSD?" WOW, I think they just might be considering doing a show on the subject. How exciting would that be? And if she lets me come on the show and talk about what we are trying to accomplish...... It is just the national attention that would boost us into success!!! I suppose I am going to get alot of work done tonight considering my adrenalin is now going about a million miles a minute!! Can't wait to share more with you all later. Thanks so much for your interest and your concern with our heroes and making sure we as a nation take care of them. It is so important. These troops are ALL volunteers. They deserve our attention and commitment to helping them when they return home. My latest idea of a fund raiser is "Sponsor a Soldier" The idea is, that most every soldier over there does a 15 month tour of duty. You can sponsor one at a dollar a month for the length of their tour. If they are giving up 15 months of their lives, we can give up a dollar a month that each service member is there for, that only comes out to a quarter a week for 15 months. At any one time, there is 130,000 troops in country. If the foundation can get 130,000 people to sponsor just one troop at a dollar a month for the length of their stay, that is only 15 dollars, the foundation will receive 1,950,000!!! As soon as that goal is reached, we can start providing the care these guys so desperately need and deserve. I kicked off the campaign myself today with a 15 dollar donation in my own son's name. Very soon, we will have a page on the web site for this goal. (probably by Friday). Please visit us again soon and you don't have to wait for the special pledge page, you can right now donate the 15 dollars and your name and the name of the soldier you sponsor will be on a special page soon. If you don't have a particular soldier in mind, that’s ok too. Just be a sponsor of an anonymous one. Thank you again so much for your interest and support in this most important cause.
Sondra Julian

Happy Friday!!!!

Hello all of my friends,
I just wanted to say happy Friday! I'm on my way out to collect some donations for our FUNdraiser on Feb. 24 at Old Glory Tavern in Hammond In. I hope everyone comes out and joins us for lots of fun while we are saving our HEROS lives!! Wish me luck!

Hello supporters and fans of Military HEROS Foundation,

Thank you, we couldn't do this without your support and help. Last Saturday I got some great help from a place called DC's Country Junction in Lowell Indiana and I have to say a big thanks to Dan for his generosity. It is a family country party place. They have line dancing, food, drinks for all ages and tons of fun! The very talented house band was playing when I walk in and I enjoyed it immensely. Dan took me into the office and basically said "whatever we can do to help, we will". How generous of DC's. We are planning a HUGE fund raiser on March 30th. I hope lots of you can come out and join us. There will be raffles, drawings, a silent auction and lots of FUN!!

Hey, two days in a row!! Who would of thunk.... Anyway, I just had to tell everyone about my presentation last night. I presented to a group called The Wall Gang. They are a group of vets, a lot of them motorcycle riders and they ride to Washing D.C. every memorial day to the Wall to honor the vets who gave their lives in Vietnam. As soon as I walked in, I got a hug from Steve Moore, the president and founder of the organization and was so warmly welcomed by all. With their generous donation, my dream moves forward. I just want to say thanks to The Wall Gang, you guys are AWESOME!!!

Once again time is flying by, we are already more than a week into the New Year. First I want to declare that 2008 will be GREAT! I'm looking forward to a successful 2008 and I hope every one enjoyed their holidays. I started my New Year off by raising money for the foundation. I have put together a presentation that I give at VFW's, Lions clubs and local businesses. Again, I just started it, but last week I raised 600 dollars and now that I got it rolling, I plan on getting more and more. These generous donations will help pay for the filing of the form 1023 to the IRS which gives us the 501c3 status that will allow us to go for the big bucks from the government and big business. Luckly, I get to talk to my son Travis almost every day. He is in Bagdad now, not real happy about that, but the FOB he is at has not lost a soldier in the green zone in over 2 years. Now if he can just stay out of the red zone, thats another story. I wish all of you good luck in 2008, and thanks to everyone who is supporting the military either through Military HEROS Foundation or other ways!!!

catching up to my progress

WOW! Its been 10 days since my last blog and the days are flying by. I have been soooo busy. Starting a foundation is a huge undertaking, fortunately I have nothing but time right now being between semesters. I start school on the 7th of Jan. so I need to get in as much work in now as possible. Just what have I been doing, lets see...... I have been e-mailing everyone in the world from Oprah to Time magazine (I e-mail Oprah every day and tell them I'm not going to stop until they call me and tell me to). My main task right now is getting a 1023 filed with the IRS to get 501(c)(3) status. It's not good enough to just incorporate as a non-profit, Uncle Sam needs to approve of it. It is a 26 page application and has a zillion government type questions, you know the ones, where it takes three Ph.D. graduate degrees to figure out what they are saying! So I have retained professional help in the form of a CPA and a lawyer to assure acceptance by the IRS. So right now that is where the money I am currently raising is going, its not cheep! I researched and wrote a Press Release that I have sent out to more than 20 magazines and newspapers trying to get national attention brought to this awesome project. I know it is going to be huge and soon doors will just start to fly open for us. If you noticed on the home page, we got a little attention from CBS 2 news Chicago on Christmas Eve, the night we put our son on a plane back to Ft. Carson Colorado where he is stationed. He was supposed to leave on the 26th for Iraq, but it was put off until today the 29th. In fact he will be leaving an hour and a half from now. I have just started reaching out to the country music industry, you know how they love their soldier boys! I just need one big country star to get on board, and the rest will follow for sure. How can they not for such an awesome cause?? If you have any advice or contacts let me know......

Welcome everyone to our adventure!

This is a huge learning experience, and it's happening so fast! We're happy to start off running for our cause - helping soldiers who are experiencing PTSD to overcome and win their own personal war. I am assuming that you all will cheer us on while we're getting it together, and we thank you in advance for it!

It is so exciting to realize that this Foundation is going to save lives literally, as well as help heal American families who have also become casualties of the evils of war. Let me encourage everyone to jump on board in some way: communicate, donate, volunteer, and pass the word about this Foundation of hope for our Military Heros!