No vet left behind
Samuel Weidenhofer spent years in speech therapy just learning to talk. Now he's got over 15 million people listening, using his voice to make others feel heard.
Still
on duty
at 88
Ed Bambas served his country, then never really stopped. No pension to retire on meant decades working retail instead, five days a week, eight hours a day, because he didn't have another choice.
$1.9
million raised
Ed had backup coming
Sam found Ed ringing up groceries and asked for his story on camera. Within days, strangers had raised $1.9 million. Ed had one condition: find 49 more veterans.
50 vets50 states50 days
Sam laid out the entire route, through all 50 states in 50 days, meeting vets fighting battles most of us will never see.
A journey cross-country
Sam spent weeks traveling the country and meeting vets with stories untold. A wrecked home, a stolen life savings, a diagnosis nobody saw coming, every stop looks different.
boots
onthe ground$1m raised
in 12 days
