Sights and sounds from 2023 Helping Veterans Heal

NEEDHAM, MA — On November 9, 2023, WCVB Channel 5 partnered with Home Base on the 5th annual day-long “Helping Veterans Heal” televent in honor of Veterans Day.

The televent began at 6am during the EyeOpener newscast and ran until 8pm, with periodic live reports throughout the day’s regularly scheduled newscasts and programming and live interviews with Retired Brigadier General Jack Hammond, Executive Director of Home Base, among others. NewsCenter 5’s special coverage included an interview with the wife of a Veteran who is running the 2024 Boston Marathon to raise money for Home Base, plus an inside look at the expansion and renovations underway at the Home Base National Center of Excellence in Charlestown, MA to meet increased need, and much more.

Bekah Salwasser, Executive Vice President of Social Impact of the Boston Red Sox and Executive Director of the Red Sox Foundation was joined in-studio by Red Sox official mascots Wally and Tessie the Green Monsters to announce the date of the highly-anticipated 15th annual Run to Home Base will be July 27, 2024, pending city approval, prior to the Red Sox-Yankees game that evening. To register, please visit runtohomebase.org.

Home Base thanks WCVB for our wonderful, impactful partnership as well as this year’s sponsors (Hanscom Federal Credit Union Charitable Foundation, Sullivan Tire, a member of the Home Base Board of Overseers, the Ludwig Family, Ducommun and National Grid), donors and volunteers for their incredible generosity and unwavering commitment to our Nation’s heroes and their loved ones. A total of $377,830 was raised to support Home Base’s mission to heal the invisible wounds of war for Veterans, Service Members, Military Families and Families of the Fallen at no cost to them.

We invite you to explore the sights and sounds from 2023 Helping Veterans Heal below: