Chuck Zodda and Mike Armstrong are joined by two amazing veterans who share their stories about serving our country and continuing to serve our disabled veterans. The guys are also joined by a local businessman who does fantastic work with the DAV.

Coleman Nee is the National Senior Vice Commander of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV). Coleman is a service-connected disabled Marine Corps veteran who served from 1986 to 1994, including deployment in support of Operation Desert Storm. He was appointed by the governor of Massachusetts to serve as the MA Secretary of Veterans’ Services from 2011 to 2015, overseeing $100 million in state funding for veterans and dependents, financial aid and programming.

Fred Treseler is the CEO and President of TRACS, Inc, a sports marketing and event management based in Waltham. In his 40+ years of leading TRACS, Fred’s team has produced events in 90+ cities across the world, including the DAV 5K Boston in partnership with the DAV Massachusetts team.

Dan Stack served in the United States Air Force from 1969-1973. Shortly after returning from South East Asia, Dan was hired by DAV in 1974 as National Service Officer. Through his career he was assigned to many locations to include offices in New York, Boson, Cleveland, Ohio, and Providence, RI. Early on in his career when Dan was in Cleveland he was asked to assist in a new study where they studied the effects that Vietnam has on Veterans, especially during the years Dan had served. After about a year of working alongside Dr. John Wilson and the staff at Cleveland State University interviewing a lot of veterans Dr. Wilson came out with the diagnosis of PTSD. The interesting part about that was the VA still didn’t recognize the condition. DAV had to legislatively add that not only to the DSM 3 for psychiatric diagnoses but also had to get legislatively activated within VA’s compensation rules.