...It's not about glory; it's about Their Story.
By making the act of displaying your VeteranShield tribute virtually effortless, we've made it as easy as possible for your family to enjoy sharing and celebrating your family heritage outdoors each year – in your own yard and neighborhood. And what better way to annually honor the incredible true-life stories of your proud Veteran Family during those sacred and solemn national holidays?
Won't you please join us?
The VeteranShield Project has been specifically created to let every family in America accomplish all of these important goals, and more. We’re hoping that your American family will now join us in this important mission, by commissioning a custom-built VeteranShield collage to:
The VeteranShield Project is currently in the final development and testing phase; the first production model is expected in early 2016. For information on how you can reserve a VeteranShield now for only $100, please click here.
Every Veteran's story is unique. So is every VeteranShield.
For a required tax-deductible donation of $5001 (or a $100 donation now and your pledge of $400, payable whenever you can afford it) you can reserve your own VeteranShield right now. After we receive your donation we'll send you a VeteranShield confirmation number, along with instructions on how to instantly access a free and easy-to-use digital collage program, together with the patented VeteranShield ready-made design templates and a set of clear, step-by-step instructions, to allow you to quickly and easily create a large (36” x 24”) veteran’s collage to honor your Veteran. You’ll be amazed at how little time it takes (and how much fun you’ll have)... very shortly, you’ll have produced a truly one-of-a-kind piece of personal artwork! And you’ll be proud of your results... we guarantee it!
Too busy to take on another project? No problem: for a small additional donation ($50), one of our talented volunteer designers will be happy to do all of the work for you. He or she will use your photographs and documents of your honored Veteran to create a stunning, high-definition VeteranShield collage in their honor, and will email to you a full-color PDF proof for your final approval. What could be easier?
Either way, you’ll be rewarded with a truly affordable, practical and personal “modern family heirloom” that your family will treasure forever for it's historical and educational value. Each individually-numbered, American-made VeteranShield features a tough and gleaming polycarbonate frame and built-in LED lighting system, and will stand up to several lifetimes of annual outdoor exposure. We know that you’ll be thrilled and proud to display your beautiful illuminated VeteranShield on the front of your home during each and every Veteran’s holiday, and to use it to showcase your Veteran’s story for all the years to come.
Our Perpetual Promise...
OK, but what happens if the day comes that your VeteranShield malfunctions or becomes damaged ...or, after six or twenty years, it becomes lost, stolen or vandalized (God forbid) ...or, after eighty or two hundred years(!), it just plain wears out?
No problem – you can simply contact us and we'll make immediate arrangements for you to send it back “home” to us, for absolutely free repair or replacement. Furthermore, any family member (or hometown friend) of a U.S. Veteran who becomes the registered Guardian of a VeteranShield is forever entitled to do so – absolutely free of cost, because of the generous VeteranShield Perpetual Care Program, included free with every VeteranShield! 2
We couldn't do this, or afford to do this, if we did not provide our members with the highest-quality product. Our returns policy is simple. If at any time for any reason or no reason you are not satisfied, you can return your VeteranShield and get an immediate replacement. Our no-holds-barred replacement policy is the litmus test of our long-term committment to quality.
...and our Eternal Vision.
Earning the deep pride inherent in becoming successful Guardians of the VeteranShield Project will be an intensely satisfying nonprofit community-building experience for everyone involved. By working together, we'll be able to create a truly permanent and protected public remembrance of our Veterans. But before we can realistically expect to reach our long-term dream of growing our Project into the largest annual outdoor community folk art exhibit in the world, we'll first need to get as many proud American Veteran families as possible to commission and create a VeteranShield, and display it on the front of their homes each year. And to accomplish that goal, the VeteranShield Project will require the long-term commitment and loyalty of our dedicated VeteranShield Volunteers from across the country, for all the years to come.
And please understand this: We deeply feel that our honored Veterans deserve only the best and highest form of permanent remembrance technology that we can provide. Therefore, our not-for-profit organization will never resort to producing anything "quick and dirty." We prefer to leave the cheap and tired promotional gimmicks to the multitude of fast-buck operators. After all, they're the experts at churning out tons of tacky, cheap, mass-produced (and soon-to-be-forgotten) yellow-ribbon "Support our Troops" car magnets and bumper stickers, or contracting a foreign factory to flood the U.S. market with an endless stream of cheesy run-of-the-mill plastic wristbands or – worse yet – imported "Go USA!" T-shirts... (Oh, the bitter irony).
Instead, we're going to insist on doing the "right thing", by relying solely on the support and participation of the great majority of hard working American citizens who still take pride in homegrown American ingenuity and real long-term value. We believe that there are enough of those hardy and patriotic souls across our great country to fully support us in our efforts to produce a certified 100% American designed and American made VeteranShield (and related American flag products). We also believe that they have the good sense to appreciate the fact that our nonprofit organization has the integrity to manufacture only a truly original, long-lasting and "hammer tough" American product – and then back it up with unlimited Perpetual Care and eternal community support.
And, because we want to ensure that we attract only the type of folks that will help the home-grown American VeteranShield Project to live forever, we need to make one thing perfectly clear: No "armchair patriots" (or other useless cynics) need apply.
Americans can do anything. We just have to decide we want to do it.
We know this won't be easy. It'll take a lot of time, money, and effort – by a lot of good and caring people – to get this job done right. And we understand that we'll always have a growing need for new volunteers to continue to join us, from all across our nation and over the coming years, in order to keep our important preservation mantra ("Save Me, Shield Me, Share Me") expanding in the public consciousness. But, in the end, we will all be amply rewarded by witnessing a huge increase in the annual public honor and permanent historical recognition given to our Veterans, our country, our communities, and our families.
And – most important of all – you will enjoy the satisfying feeling of knowing that not only will your VeteranShield donations will be "doing the right thing" in our ongoing effort to celebrate, commemorate, educate and heal, but that you will also be serving to assist disabled and homeless American Veterans, by providing them with the kind of valuable work that we can all be proud of.
And that kind of personal satisfaction is priceless.
Ready to get started? Then roll up your sleeves... and click here now!
The VeteranShield Project is currently in the final development and testing phase; the first production model is expected in early 2016. For information on how you can reserve a VeteranShield now for only $100, please click here.
VeteranShield is a registered trademark of POD Development Holdings, Inc., U.S. and international patents pending. FastTrack is a registered trademark of Newall Rubbermaid Inc.
1 Minimum required donation amount subject to change. A limited number of partial or full sponsorships are now planned for low-income troops (E-3 and below, on a hardship waiver) who are currently serving on active duty in a combat zone or hazardous duty area; please contact us at sponsorship@veteranshield.org.
2 Perpetual Care Program applies to all shield frame, hardware, and illumination system components. Printed collage media will naturally fade over time, and can be re-printed and replaced at any time for an additional $25 donation.
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