ABMF Coalition Partners
Amplifying complementary missions
A project of the American Studies Center, the American Veterans Center and World War II Veterans Committee has worked to preserve the legacy of our veterans and military personnel for more than 20 years.
Some AVC programs:
Producer of the National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC
American Valor: A Salute to our Heroes, an annual Veterans’ Day television spectacular, this is just one of AVC’s award-winning documentary programs and TV specials
Annual Veterans Conference & National Youth Leadership Summit with a focus on ROTC cadets
AVC maintains an oral history collection of veterans’ interviews, with a subscriber base of more than 1.5 million on YouTube and Facebook, and total views of more than 1 billion
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We are working together to preserve and promote VAC’s portfolio of audio and video interviews with veterans from WWII.
Some AVC programs:
Project Hero offers multi-day rehabilitation therapy cycling rides (some with adaptive bikes) of varying lengths throughout the U.S. and Europe including visits to ABMC cemeteries and memorials as alternative therapies for PTSD and TBI treatment, as well as physical injury rehabilitation
Project Hero HUB chapters offer group rides and activities in more than 50 cities throughout the United States
Founded in 2008, Project Hero is dedicated to helping veterans and first responders affected by PTSD, TBI, and injury to achieve rehabilitation, recovery, and resilience in their daily lives.
Project Hero multi-day Challenge rides stop at schools so students can meet wounded veterans and see that their injuries do not define them. Project Hero helps promote the ABMF Past is Prologue Essay Contest at these schools.
This one-of-a-kind, first-class, private event takes special note of America’s Semiquincentennial and our allies through two world wars. It includes behind-the-scenes tours of five ABMC American military cemeteries and memorials; seminars by ABMC historians and military experts; private tours of world-class museums; an extraordinary tour of the battle sites at Normandy; a visit to the eighth-century refuge, Mont Saint-Michel; first-class lodging; meals of locally-sourced foods and wines; a Seine River dinner cruise on our private top deck; and other curated cultural experiences.
This unique trip will focus on the stories of the fallen heroes of World War I and World War II and the relevance of their sacrifice to today’s geopolitics.