AmVets Hawaii Ewa Battlefield Memorial Initiative
AMVETS Renews Arizona Memorial as “Keepers of the Wall”

AMVETS Department of Hawaii [AMVETS Hawaii]


Our mission is to provide advocacy, support and assistance for all who served honorably in the United States Armed Forces: past, present and future Veterans and their families;
To inform, influence and inspire others to serve in our military and civilian communities; and,
To honor and never forget our Nation’s Veterans service and sacrifices in defense of our Nation.

AMVETS Hawaii Service Foundation Corp. is a nonprofit 501(c)3, All-volunteer Veterans Service Organization (VSO) established to help raise needed funds to support programs, services and assistance administered by AMVETS Department of Hawaii and all AMVETS Posts located in Hawaii.  AMVETS Department and Posts are 501(c)19 under the AMVETS National Headquarters located in Lanham, Maryland.

Island Focus – Donovan Lazarus

 

The VET HEAL Suicide Prevention Training Course

The purpose of this training course is to equip you with the tools necessary to deal with at-risk Veterans whose problems fall outside the reach of government policies and Veterans Service Organization (VSO) programs.

The HEAL Mission:

To ensure veterans with medical needs receive the help they have earned to access the best quality healthcare, including mental health and specialized services (traumatic brain injury, polytrauma, post-traumatic stress) and live longer, healthier lives. These services are free. You served and now it is our turn to serve you.

Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future

– Preserve and Honor: Remembering the legacy of those who came before us

– Educate and Inspire: Passing the legacy on to the generations who will follow

It is our duty and our solemn vow to never forget those who fought and died since this birth of our nation, to the brave men of the USS Arizona, to our fallen comrades today. May they rest in peace and know they will never be forgotten.

President Lincoln said that speeches and statues are not an adequate repayment for service in defense of one’s country. One day of remembrance is simply not enough for what these veterans died for. For we are able to choose freedom today because of the bravery of those men and women whose fate, on that day, had been chosen for them.

About AMVETS

AMVETS (American Veterans) is the nation’s most inclusive Congressionally-chartered veterans service organization, representing the interests of 20 million veterans. AMVETS is open to and fighting for all who honorably served in the United States military, including the Reserve and Guard. With more than 300,000 members nationwide, we are veterans serving veterans.

AMVETS NATIONAL MISSION STATEMENT: To enhance and safe­guard the enti­tle­ments for all Amer­i­can Vet­er­ans who have served hon­or­ably and to improve the qual­ity of life for them, their fam­i­lies, and the com­mu­ni­ties where they live through lead­er­ship, advo­cacy and services.

AMVETS good works in Hawaii includes…

AMVETS West Oahu Veterans Center

AMVETS Hawaii opened our West Oahu Veterans Center to provide a gathering place for our members and other Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs), to conduct workshops, training, post meetings and other activities for Veterans, Service members and their families. On August 15, 2020, AMVETS Hawaii received the real-estate agreement of the US Navy facility to accept it on an “As Is” basis. AMVETS Hawaii renovated building 612 and 612A  (3030 sq. ft.), to include a tennis court, and two softball fields to be dedicated to serving Veterans and VSOs.

AMVETS Hawaii Biomodulator Program

Hawaii lead a program called ‘The General Hank Stackpole Legacy Project for the Alleviation of Chronic Pain’. It is based on the BioModulator technology and has been utilized for military patients in Hawaii for or over 10 years. The program serves active duty men and women as well as Veterans in alleviating chronic pain issues and helps them to reclaim their lives.

AMVETS Hawaii is the proud “Keepers of the Naval Air Station Barbers Point Memorial”

AMVETS Hawaii completed the building of the NAS Barbers Point Memorial in May 2021 after establishing a committee under the leadership of Colonel Jason Seal, (USMC, Ret.), on the grounds of the Kalaeloa Airport. The purpose of the memorial is to honor our Veterans of World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, Gulf War, and all who were stationed at the Naval Air Station from 1942 to 1999. AMVETS Hawaii – Hawaii Department of Transportation MOU.

The AMVETS Memorial Carillon Bell System at Punchbowl is maintained by AMVETS Service Foundation, IAW, AMVETS-Cemetery MOA.  AMVETS decided that a “living” memorial, a carillon whose bells, symbolic of Thomas Jefferson’s historic words, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” tolling as a constant reminder that the sacrifices made by those who died were not in vain, but also serves to remind us of our legacy and of our debt to those who fought to preserve freedom throughout the world.

AMVETS is the proud “Keepers of the USS Arizona Memorial Marble Shrine Wall”

AMVETS built the first Memorial Wall and replaced the Wall 3-times; most recently, AMVETS raised the $350,000 dollars needed and rededicated the Memorial Wall on Veterans Day, 11 NOV 2014, IAW, AMVETS – National Park Service MOA 

Pearl Harbor Visitor Center Shoreside Dock Restoration Project

AMVETS Past National Commander, Regi Riley (2018-2019) selected the Shoreside dock to be his Signature Project, raising over $65,000 dollars in August 2019.

U.S. Department of the Interior, National Pork Service (NPS) Ewa Field Grant – $63,000 

In September 2018, NPS entered into a Grant Agreement with AMVETS Hawaii Service Foundation Corporation pursuant to the Battlefield Preservation Assistance provisions of the American Battlefield protection program with the NPS to identify, evaluate, interpret, and protect historic battlefields and sites associated with wars on American soil.

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Note. AMVETS Hawaii is an All-volunteer organization nonprofit Veterans Service Organization (VSO).

    

Our Purpose:

AMVETS has been proudly serving American veterans for more than half a century. Founded by World War II veterans, the organization has grown to where, today, its membership enrolls veterans from all areas, Anyone who has honorably served in the United States Armed Forces after Sept. 15, 1940, to include those on active duty as well as in the Reserve Components. The purpose and goals of AMVETS, as spelled out in the organization’s 1947 congressional charter, still ring true today.

Among these aims are:

  • To preserve for ourselves and our posterity the great and basic truths and enduring principles upon which this nation was founded.
  • To maintain a continuing interest in the welfare and rehabilitation of disabled veterans and to establish facilities for the assistance of all veterans, to represent them in their claims before VA and other organizations.
  • To dedicate ourselves to the service and best interests of the community, state and nation to the end that our country shall be and remain forever a strong and free nation.
  • To encourage universal exercise of the voting franchise to the end that there shall be elected and maintained in public office men and women who hold such office as a public trust administered in the best interests of all people.
  • To advocate the development and means by which all Americans may become enlightened and informed citizens and this participate fully in the functions of democracy.

Note:

American Veterans or “AMVETS” formerly known as American Veterans of World War II, was founded by nine World War II veterans clubs in Kansas City, Missouri on Dec. 10, 1944.

Less than three years later, on July 23, 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed Public Law 216, making AMVETS the first World War II organization to be chartered by Congress

Since then, the original charter has been amended several times to admit as members those who served in different eras. On 16 October 2002 the 107th Congress enacted Public Law 107-241 (H.R. 3214), an Act to amend the Charter of the AMVETS organization to “AMVETS (American Veterans)”. Today, membership in AMVETS is open to anyone who is currently serving, or who has honorably served in the U.S. Armed Forces from World War II to the present, to include the National Guard and Reserves.

AMVETS is an organization that benefit veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Internal Revenue Code section 7701(a)(15) defines “Armed Forces of the United States” to include all regular and reserve components of the uniformed services which are subject to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force, and each term also includes the Coast Guard. AMVETS members are members of the United States Armed Forces, past or present.

  • AMVETS Hawaii Service Foundation Corp. is a 501(c)3, public, non-profit Veterans’ Service Organization (VSO)
  • AMVETS Department of Hawaii and Posts are 501(c)(19), non-profit, all-volunteer Veterans’ Service Organization (VSO)
  • Our members are Veterans and Active Duty Service members serving in the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines, U.S. Air Force, Coast Guard, Hawaii National Guard and Reserve.
 
Company Main: (808) 888-0410
E-mail: admin@amvets-hawaii.org
AMVETS West Oahu Veterans Center: 808-888-0410

 

State Commander:

Donovan Andrew Lazarus (US Army, Retired)
Direct: (808) 382-6835 
E-mail: donovan@amvets-hawaii.org

 

Adjutant & Service Officer:

William Rodriguez (US Navy, Retired)
Direct: (631) 219-1374 
E-mail: william.r@amvets-hawaii.org
 
Meeting Location: AMVETS West Oahu Veterans Center
5001 Iroquois Avenue
West Loch Annex, JBPHH, Building 612
Ewa Beach, Hawaii 96706
 

Mailing Address:

AMVETS Hawaii
PO Box 2865
Ewa Beach, Hawaii (USA) 96706
Phone: (808) 888-0410
Help Fund our new Veterans Center, now!
Click the “donate” button below to make a donation, today.

AmVets Hawaii Service Foundation, EIN:83-0550908 is a 501(c)3 public, non-profit, Veterans Service Organization (VSO).

Over 90% of all donations received will directly fund our ROTC/JROTC Medals and Awards program, Hawaii Public Schools Essay Contests, the preservations of Ewa Battlefield, and other Memorials and Hawaii Historic sites.  And will also help fund our annual commemoration ceremonies: Ewa Battlefield Pearl Harbor Commemoration, Battle of Midway Commemoration, Veteran’s Day Commemoration ceremony, and other events.

And most of all, your support will support our program initiatives to benefit our Veterans, transitioning Service members, and their families with needed assistance and advocacy.

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AMVETS Charities, Inc. participates in the Combined Federal Campaign through the Military, Veterans and Patriotic Services Organizations of America federation. Our Combined Federal number is of the 50,000 charities that participate in the CFC, only about 1500 – the members of Independent Charities of America and Local Independent Charities of America – will have the opportunity to display the “Best In America” seal of approval. AMVETS Charities, Inc. is proud to be one of those chosen few. This seal of approval is a service mark of Independent Charities of America and is used under license. AMVETS NSF is responsible for the content of any materials in which the Service Mark is used.

Our mission:

To help provide needed support and assistance for all who served honorably in the United States Armed Forces: past, present and future veterans and their families.

Our purpose:

(1) To inspire in AMVETS membership a sense of responsibility and to develop leadership for the preservation of our American democratic way of life;

(2) To help unify divergent groups in the overall interest of American democracy;

(3) To train our youth to become purposeful citizens in a democracy with full knowledge of the responsibilities as well as the privileges of citizenship;

(4) To cooperate with all duly recognized existing veterans organizations in the furtherance of the aims of the veterans who have served or are serving in the Armed Forces of the United States during and since World War II; (5) To ensure the orderly return of the veteran to civilian life by protecting the rights of individuals while the service member is still in uniform;

(5) To expedite and assist in the rehabilitation of veterans by maintaining employment services; sponsoring educational opportunities; providing counsel on insurance, housing, recreation, personal problems, hospitalization and veterans benefits;

(6) To act as a liaison agent between the veteran and the government;

(7) To provide an organization to encourage fellowship among all American veterans who have served or are serving in the Armed Forces of the United States during and since World War II;

(8) To keep the public forever reminded that the American veterans who have served or are serving in the Armed Forces of the United States during and since World War II fought and served to preserve peace, liberty and democracy for their nation;

(9) To inform, influence and inspire others to serve in our military and civilian communities

(10) To help provide needed financial support and assistance to service members, veterans and their families;

(11) To help provide needed financial support and assistance for the preservation of Ewa Battlefield and other historic sites;

(12) To help provide needed financial support to build and preserve memorials and monuments in Hawaii; and,

(13) To honor and never forget not only our World War II veterans who died at Pearl Harbor and Ewa Field, but also those many more who died in sea battles, distance coral atolls – Coral Sea, Midway, Wake- their names often never recognized or mentioned for their sacrifices; and all other conflicts.

Note: Our members are Veterans and Active Duty Servicemembers serving in the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines, U.S. Air Force, Coast Guard, Hawaii National Guard and Reserve.

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