What are you doing to help this country; now that you have transitioned to civilian life?

I am working on helping transitioning personnel and veterans by placing them with companies looking for veterans. That's the ultimate taking care of Joe's for me.

I am on my 5th year as Commander of my local American Legion Post. We do not operate a bar, but we have a meeting room given us by the Village on the second floor of City Hall. We are very connected to the village. Enough so that we have our own mail slot in the Village Office. The Commander and Vice Commander have keys to city hall.
We lead two Ceremonies in the village on Memorial Day.
We plan and Lead the Independence Day Parade.
We place about 700 flags on veterans graves each Memorial Day
We lead the local Church's Mt Carmel Parade
We lead the Village Birthday Parade and conduct a laying of the Roses for 20 men from the village that died during war time.
We participate in a Veterans Day Program at the K-12 School
We participate in an American and Government program at the High School
We send at least one Student to Buckey Boys State every Summer.
We have discovered 2 unmarked Veterans graves, and got them marked and notified family members.
We found and cleaned up a Revolutionary war cemetery that had been forgotten.
We had a local bridge dedicated by the County as the village Veterans memorial Bridge.
This year I'm working on getting a Deck Built for a Disabled Veteran.

My contrabutions are donations to veteran and current serving member causes like WWP, Operation Home Front, Project Sanctuary etc. Also by instilling in my two sons to give of themselves. One son currently serving SFC Steven Borders and my youngest son who is unabe to serve his country has chosen to serve his community as a volunteer firefighter. I still work for the transprtation department in our city and strret sweep in summer and deice and plow in the winter. So I guess in a sense I'm still giving back to my community. I just get paid well for doing it!