Friday mornings since 08-12-2012, at the American Heroes Café, veterans recite the Pledge of Allegiance at 0900; sing patriotic songs, then dig into donuts & coffee. Mary Domes and Sharon Janusz co-founding The American Heroes Café in 2012 at the former Spiegelhoff’s SuperValu in Kenosha. Festival Foods, which acquired the SuperValu and built a new store nearby in 2013, offered to continue the Am
erican Heroes Café inside the new store. Today, veterans stop by the Festival Foods-Kenosha community conference room each week. The American Heroes Café is now hosted and sponsored by Festival Foods, 3207 80th St., Piasecki Funeral Home and Good Value Pharmacy. It doesn’t matter which branch of service you are in; whether you served in combat or not, where you served or what era. Birthdays are collectively celebrated once a month. They also share moments of silence for those who die. Ali Nelson, director of Kenosha County’s Division of Veterans Services, calls the Café "a healing place.”
