Midnight Express Fundraiser

At Nation’s Finest, our mission is to support America’s military veterans and their families with a comprehensive approach to housing, health and employment that helps them achieve self-sufficiency and reach their full potential.

Nation’s Finest has been providing veteran services since 1972. Our story started when four veterans returned home from Vietnam, only to realize that the support and services they needed were not available. They were also not being treated well by their fellow Americans when they got back.

The four veterans decided to create a nonprofit organization in Santa Rosa, California, to help fellow veterans who had fallen on hard times. This wasn’t a charity in their eyes, but a sacred duty never to leave a fallen brother or sister behind. The early members felt that allowing fellow veterans to be homeless, out of work, or lacking basic health care was a form of those veterans being left behind – something they couldn’t let stand. In 1972, with a grant of only $9,000 to start with, Flower of the Dragon was born.