Veteran Home Guardians

05/28/2026

Interested in Bee Keeping?

05/28/2026

Veteran Home Guardians will be keeping bees and selling honey again this year to help fund Veteran Service Visits.

We’re also open to pollination partnerships and seasonal hive check-ins for local property owners.

If you’d like to learn more about beekeeping, follow along for videos, updates, and educational content.

05/28/2026

Small hummingbird in Ohio.

05/27/2026

Thirsty Humming Bird video.

05/27/2026

Veterans should not lose purpose after service.

At Veteran Home Guardians, we pay veterans to help veterans stay safe at home through wellness visits, light assistance, companionship, and real human connection.

We are currently raising $5,000 to help fund the next 100 veteran visits.

This is not a handout model.
It is a purpose model.

Bootstrap this into any Legion, VFW, AMVETS, or veteran group that actually wants to serve veterans where they are instead of waiting for another broken system to fix itself.

Give veterans purpose, not dependency.
Give communities a way to reconnect.
Give forgotten veterans a reason to keep going.

Donate today:
VetHomeGuard.org

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WjxKO7p12N8rJ7MuU1kv0fTqluc8NAR9/view?usp=drivesdk

05/18/2026

Good intentions are not enough.

Systems matter.

Veteran Home Guardians turns community support into a working loop:

Donations → veteran worker supported → Guardian Visit delivered → veteran safer at home → trust built → more community support.

That loop reduces the real friction veterans face:

Isolation.
Transportation gaps.
Missed prescriptions.
Home upkeep.
Caregiver burnout.
Not knowing where to turn.

Sometimes the difference is not a giant program.

Sometimes it is one veteran showing up at the door before a small problem becomes a crisis.

We are trying to cover the next 100 Guardian Visits.

$50 = 1 visit
$500 = 10 visits
$5,000 = 100 visits

Practical support. Trusted relationships. Safer homes.

Donate or share:

https://www.vethomeguard.org/donate

05/17/2026

Hey Secretary Collins,

My name is Travis Vought. I’m a former Marine Staff Sergeant, former HUMINT/CI, and founder of Veteran Home Guardians, an Ohio-based nonprofit built around one simple mission:

Pay veterans to help veterans stay safely at home.

We organize veterans to conduct wellness visits, light assistance, companionship, transportation support, nursing home visits, and home support for senior, disabled, isolated, and overlooked veterans who are falling through the cracks between family, the VA, and existing services.

What we are seeing on the ground is heartbreaking:
• Veterans abandoned in nursing homes with almost no visitors
• Disabled veterans unable to maintain basic living conditions
• Veterans isolated with no transportation or support network
• Younger veterans wanting meaningful work and purpose, but unable to survive financially while serving others

Our model solves both problems simultaneously.

We create paid mission-focused work for veterans while rebuilding human connection and practical support for vulnerable veterans in local communities.

We are not trying to replace the VA.
We are trying to become the trusted human bridge between veterans and the systems meant to help them.

We have already helped veterans across Ohio through volunteer efforts and community partnerships, but demand is growing far faster than our ability to sustain it financially.

I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to share our operational guidebook and discuss how Veteran Home Guardians could potentially complement existing VA outreach and community care efforts, especially for isolated and aging veterans.

Respectfully,

Travis Vought
Founder, Veteran Home Guardians
VetHomeGuard.org

05/15/2026

Since July, Veteran Home Guardians has visited veterans in nursing homes every single week.

Whether anyone funded it or not.
We did it because it needed done.

We have also helped veterans one-on-one with companionship, practical support, crisis response, referrals, veteran events, and making sure people who served are not forgotten.

One of those veterans is Dawn Boucher, a Navy veteran.

After surviving a violent domestic attack that left her paralyzed from the neck down, Dawn spent roughly a year and a half in a nursing home, largely disconnected from the support she had earned.

Veteran Home Guardians showed up.

We listened. We asked questions. We helped connect her with the Knox County Veterans Service Office. That connection helped Dawn access disability benefits and medical support.

That is why Guardian Visits matter.

Sometimes a Guardian Visit is companionship.
Sometimes it is a welfare check.
Sometimes it is yard cleanup or errands.
Sometimes it is practical home support.
Sometimes it is noticing that a veteran has fallen through the cracks and helping reconnect them to support they earned.

We do nursing home visits for free because veterans should not be forgotten.

But free service is not free for the people showing up.

It costs gas, time, coordination, supplies, emotional energy, and work hours people cannot always afford to lose.

The veteran receiving help should not have to pay.

The veteran showing up should not have to go broke serving.

So we are launching our first major public campaign:

**We Already Showed Up. Help Us Keep Going.**

We are raising **$5,000** to fund the next **100 Guardian Visits** for Central Ohio veterans.

**$50 funds one Guardian Visit.**

That one visit can help a veteran feel remembered, safer, supported, connected, or finally seen.

Donate here:
https://www.vethomeguard.org/donate

If you cannot donate, please share this.

If you own a business, sponsor 10 visits for $500.

If you belong to a church, veterans group, civic club, Legion, VFW, AMVETS, Moose, Eagles, Rotary, or local organization, please consider sponsoring visits or inviting us to speak.

We already showed up.

Now we need the community to help us keep going.

No veteran should be forgotten at home or in care.

05/10/2026

Heading back to Sonic Temple for another year of music, connection and healing.

05/09/2026

Making tree ring art with sections of Black Locust.

Using as pavers with sections 1-2 feet across and better than pressure treated for weather resistance.

Looking to sell to raise funds for Veteran Home Guardians support.

What do you think?

02/04/2026

Veteran Home Guardians — Veterans Helping Veterans

Founded in 2025 by Travis Vought, a U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Veteran Home Guardians is based in Marengo.

Our mission is simple: no veteran should be forgotten.

We support senior, disabled, and homebound veterans by employing fellow veterans to provide:

In-home services and safety improvements

Companionship and wellness check-ins

Transportation to appointments and errands

Practical help that restores dignity and independence

This model creates purpose-driven jobs for veterans while building trusted, veteran-to-veteran connections.

What we’ve accomplished so far

🚀 Rapid growth
Reached our 100-day milestone in October 2025 while actively serving isolated veterans across our community.

🏠 Direct veteran aid
Raised funds to help veterans like Josh move toward stable housing, including support for his service dog, Loki (currently $791 toward a $12,000 goal).

🔥 Emergency support https://gofund.me/d4afb2e6f
Assisting the Ault Family in Cardington after a devastating kitchen fire around New Year’s destroyed their home and claimed beloved pets. We’re supporting their recovery alongside their GoFundMe (currently $5,620 raised of an $11,000 goal from 40 donors).

🏥 Closing care gaps
Identified veterans in nursing homes without VA benefits or family support — and building expanded services for 2026 to reach them.

🫡 Veteran employment first
Creating real opportunities for veterans to serve their peers, reducing isolation while restoring purpose and community.

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