The ‘Defend Freedom’ Veterans Bus Tour
Honor Service. Defend Freedom. Take Action.
The following stops are scheduled for the Albuquerque/Las Cruces area on October 8 and 9, 2013:
Event One:
DATE: October 8, 2013
TIME: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
WHAT: Live Performance: MADISON RISING
WHERE: Thunderbird Harley Davidson
5000 Alameda Boulevard, NE, Albuquerque
Event Two:
DATE: October 9, 2013
TIME: 7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
WHAT: Leadership Breakfast
WHERE: East Gate Foursquare Church (parking lot)
12120 Copper Avenue, NE, Albuquerque
Event Three:
DATE: October 9, 2013
TIME: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
WHAT: Lunchtime Leadership Forum
WHERE: Veterans Memorial Park
2651 Roadrunner Parkway, Las Cruces
Arlington, VA—The ‘Defend Freedom’ Veterans’ Bus Tour launched in early October. For three weeks, and across a dozen states from Nevada to the east coast, we’ll be providing a platform for U.S. military veterans, their friends and families, and all patriotic Americans to tell their stories, and explore ways to continue fighting for freedom here at home. This tour includes dozens of stops in Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina.
The tour, sponsored by Concerned Veterans for America (CVA)—a national, non-profit organization of veterans, military family members, and patriotic Americans—will take messages of service, freedom and the American dream from coast to coast. A high-profile list of decorated veterans have joined the tour; read more about tour participants, and the tour, at www.DefendFreedomTour.com.
Issues to be discussed include the following:
- Preserving our promises to veterans by reforming the Department of VeteransAffairs, especially the 500,000 “backlog” of veterans’ benefit claims.
- Reforming Pentagon spending, to ensure we maintain the strongest military in the world and America takes care of troops.
- Tackling our nation’s $17 trillion debt, which is both an economic and security threat.
- Getting veterans involved so they can continue to serve America here at home.
“Unfortunately, our great nation is failing to live up to its potential, and in particular, failing in its commitment to our veterans,” said Pete Hegseth, CEO of CVA. “That’s why we’re taking our messages to the people, to help build our activist base so that veterans, their families and friends will join us to promote the values that will keep this nation strong, fiscally sound, proud and responsible,”
“Our veterans deserve better,” Hegseth added. “We’re tired of the rhetoric and we want results.”
The cities and dates include:
Las Vegas, NV., October 4 Tallapoosa, Ga., October 16
San Diego, CA., October 5 Columbus, Ohio, October 19
Los Angeles, CA., October 6 Cincinnati, Ohio, October 20
Payson/Mesa, Ariz., October 7 Louisville, Ky., October 21
Albuquerque, N.M., October 8 Harrisonburg/Lynchburg, Va., October 22
Las Cruces, N.M., October 9 Richmond, Va., October 23
New Orleans, LA., October 11, 12 Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Va., October 24
Pensacola, Fla., October 13 Fayetteville/Charlotte, N.C., October, 25
Orlando, Fla., October 14 Woodbridge Va., October 26
Jacksonville, Fla., October 15 Manassas, Va., October 27
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Concerned Veterans for America is a nation-wide, non-profit veterans organization established to advocate for policies that will preserve the freedom, and prosperity that veterans and their families have so proudly fought and sacrificed to defend. In just over a year, over 141,000 Americans have joined CVA on Facebook.