HONORING AMERICAS WARRIORS INC

Programs
Honoring America’s Warriors is an Oklahoma based 501 C (3) public charity formed in 2014.
Our programs are designed to assist veterans suffering from PTS and TBI that can lead to severe depression or suicide. The most effective mechanism is to create a dragnet of multiple programs to bring as many veterans together as possible. Veterans will interact with each other, build new relationships, and lean on each other in dark times.
Honoring America's Warriors Honor Guard
Honoring America's Warriors Honor Guard is a team of disabled veterans who want a new mission to be back in-service dress uniform and pay it forward. We render/augment military funeral honors for veterans of all eras when the family deems the legislated two-man flag fold is not adequate. We provide a rifle team, a flag fold team, and a bugler. We also present colors at many large events across the State of Oklahoma. The rendering of Military Funeral Honors for an eligible veteran, is free of charge, and is mandated by law. An honor guard detail for the burial of an eligible veteran shall consist of not less than two members of the Armed Forces. One member of the detail shall be a representative of the parent Service of the deceased veteran. The honor detail will, at a minimum, perform a ceremony that includes the folding and presenting of the American flag to the next of kin and the playing of Taps. The veteran's parent Service representative will present the flag.
Funeral Honors Eligibility
Military members on active duty or in the Selected Reserve.
Former military members who served on active duty and departed under conditions other than dishonorable.
Former military members who completed at least one term of enlistment or period of initial obligated service in the Selected Reserve and departed under conditions other than dishonorable.
Former military members discharged from the Selected Reserve due to a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty.
Eligibility
The preferred method for verifying eligibility is the DD Form 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty. If the DD Form 214 is not available, any discharge document showing other than dishonorable service can be used. The DD Form 214 may be obtained by requesting it online from the National Archives.
Requesting Military Funeral Honors
Families of eligible veterans request funeral honors by contacting Honoring America’s Warriors at 405-948-4376.

Service Dogs
HAW provides veterans who qualify, service dogs and training program at no cost to the Veteran and/or Service Member. Since August of 2014 we have placed over 175 dogs with veterans and their families. The program requires participation in our training program that will tailor the training for the exact requirements of the veteran. We provide the animal, training, emergency veterinary care, and service vests.
Service Dogs
A service dog is a dog trained to do specific tasks for a person that he or she cannot do because of a disability. Service dogs can pick things up, guide a person with vision problems, or help someone who falls or loses balance easily. For example, a service dog can help a blind person walk down the street or get dangerous things out of the way when someone is having a seizure.
Protecting someone, giving emotional support, or being a companion do not qualify a dog to be a service animal. To be a service dog, a dog must go through training. Usually the dog is trained to:
Do things that are different from natural dog behavior
Do things that the handler (dog owner) cannot do because of a disability
Learn to work with the new handler in ways that help manage the owner's disability
Because the handler depends on the service dog's help, service dogs are allowed to go to most public places the handler goes. This is the case even if it is somewhere pet dogs usually cannot go, like restaurants or on airplanes. But there are a few exceptions. For example, service dogs can be asked to leave if they are not behaving well.

Hunting & Fishing Outdoor Adventures
Honoring America’s Warriors hosts veterans with guided hunting and fishing outings. All the outings are on private leases that have been donated to the organization. Our goal is to honor our country’s wounded veterans’ patriotism and their sacrifice by providing quality hunting, fishing and all outdoor related activities. We also work to raise public awareness about the therapeutic effects that being in the outdoors has on the mental and physical disabilities of our country’s wounded men and women. We will also provide a platform for veterans to tell their own stories in their own words. The benefits of nature contact as therapy are well documented, including contemplative, recreational, and hands-on habitat restoration activities. Though not yet on the radar screen of policy makers, veterans have initiated nature-based programs focused on hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreation and restoration activities. Testimony from participants indicates the programs' powerful impacts on vets. Although research projects have focused on reintegrating vets, a recent literature review revealed only a small number of studies of the impact of an outdoor program on veterans. Further, despite the rapid emergence of nature-based programs for vets across the US, little information on how officials view such efforts exists. The REWORRR study, funded by USDA NIFA Federal Formula Funds, explores the importance of human-nature interactions in outdoor recreation and restoration activities among returning war veterans to account for how these interactions relate to individual, community, and social-ecological health and resilience.