The pandemic has forced some veteran-owned businesses to close. But other veteran entrepreneurs say their military experience has helped them withstand
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Veteran entrepreneurs take part in a 2019 class at Action Zone in Tampa. The non-profit organization moved online in 2020 to continue its classes in entrepreneurship for veterans.
Army veteran Natacha Delince served two tours in Iraq. While she was deployed, a crisis was unfolding at home. Towards the end of my military career, my Mom had gotten sick, she said. So that kind of opened the gateway and exposed me to healthcare.
When she left the Army in 2012, Delince had to move her mother into a nursing home. She also decided to pursue healthcare as a career - first as a nursing assistant, then as a healthcare administrator. She said the experience of watching her mother decline and die in a nursing home was traumatic. She wasn t aware there were other options, like a group home.
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Veteran entrepreneurs take part in a 2019 class at Action Zone in Tampa. The non-profit organization moved online in 2020 to continue its classes in entrepreneurship for veterans.
The pandemic has forced some veteran-owned businesses to close. But other veteran entrepreneurs say their military experience has helped them withstand hardship.
Army veteran Natacha Delince served two tours in Iraq. While she was deployed, a crisis was unfolding at home. Towards the end of my military career, my Mom had gotten sick, she said. So that kind of opened the gateway and exposed me to healthcare.
When she left the Army in 2012, Delince had to move her mother into a nursing home. She also decided to pursue healthcare as a career - first as a nursing assistant, then as a healthcare administrator. She said the experience of watching her mother decline and die in a nursing home was traumatic. She wasn t aware there were other options, like a group home.
MACOMB, Ill. - On the day of celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Western Illinois Athletics and the WIU Multicultural Center proudly announced Tammie Brown-Edwards and DeShon Gavin as the first recipients of the MLK Scholarship.
The MLK Service Scholarship recognizes two Western Illinois students, one student-athlete (Gavin) and one non-student-athlete (Brown-Edwards), who embody and exemplify the characteristics promoted by Dr. King - a vision of peace, persistence in purpose, inspirational action, and sportsmanship. Brown-Edwards and Gavin will each receive a one-time, non-renewable $500 scholarship in the spring of 2021.
Nominees were asked to write a one-page statement, answering the question, How has Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired you? Brown-Edwards impactful letter is below.
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