Since then, Beverly’s son has returned safely home, but this proud military mom doesn’t stop fighting to honor those who wear a uniform. Working alongside Freedom Alliance, Beverly hosts an annual social event in Washington, D.C., for injured veterans and supporters.
This year, we once again booked Shelly’s Back Room, a friendly yet stylish tavern for cigar enthusiasts, and invited veterans, military staff, and patients from Walter Reed National Military Hospital and their family members—19 in all—for Beverly’s celebrated “cigar night.”
Many of our guests had lost legs and arms while serving our country. One Marine from Missouri, Todd, is a quadruple amputee, who was in the nation’s capital to see about a bilateral arm transplant. He came to cigar night with his friend Jeremy, who we first met while recovering from a combat-related brain injury at Walter Reed.
It was a night not to forget and a heartening way to remember the men and women who have sacrificed so that we can be free.