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About Us
We support veterans' assistance organizations
In 2021, a research paper released by Watson Institute International & Public Affairs at Brown University titled, HIGH SUICIDE RATES AMONG UNITED STATES SERVICE MEMBERS AND VETERANS OF THE POST-9/11 WARS, found that 30,177 active duty personnel and veterans who served in the military after 9/11 have died by suicide - compared to the 7,057 service members killed in combat in those same 20 years.
Join the fight against Vet homelessness and suicide
Signed into law in OCTOBER 2020, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act authorized 988 as the new three-digit number Veterans can CALL by dialing 988 and pressing 1 to contact the Veterans Crisis Line. Local Veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, or having thoughts of suicide, contact the Albany Samuel S. Stratton Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Veterans Crisis Line or Homeless Veterans Care Program by calling this Toll-Free number 1-800-698-2411
WE PLAN & PRODUCE EVENTS, AND PROMOTE VETERAN MUSICIANS
ALL YEAR LONG WE SUPPORT ENLISTED & VETERANS' EVENTS!
About Our Mission and US Military Family of Veterans
Our late Veteran parents and younger brother, Joseph Mark Long (b. 1970, died on June 30, 2021), all served overseas in the U.S. Military. Joseph died four months after our Army Security Agency (ASA) mom, who served in Germany. She passed in Hospice. Dad served in the Army Air Corps all over ITALY... He cooked incredible Italian-style cuisine in our home! My late godfather, Michael Aidala, was born in Sicily, Italy... He emigrated to America and was a Korean War Veteran. Our business partner's late dad was a Korean War Veteran and an Amsterdam, NY police officer... Her late sister, Karen (pictured above with her dad), served in the Vietnam War... OUR MISSION is to honor ALL active-duty military soldiers and ALL Veterans who served, our late veteran parents, late veteran mentors, and those who served this great country.
About our military friends, mentors and projects
Our company's traveling photographer, Ed Woods, is a United States Marine (retired), who served in the Vietnam War... Ed published a book, SILENT WARRIORS, dedicated to the American military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice during the Vietnam War. It is a story about The Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall, containing over 58,000 names of those who gave their lives in defense of their country. All of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to benefit Veterans.
Our 518PIZZERIAS™ mini events and Annual Pasta & Pizza Event™ during National Pasta & Pizza Month (October thru Veterans Day) honors Enlisted and Veterans who served!
All event internet, print and radio advertising, food, exhibition building, marketing, pop-up mini events, printing, contest prizes, promotion, press release writing, public relations, and event t-shirts are underwritten by our gracious event management company sponsors.
WE PRODUCE SPECIAL EVENTS & MURDER MYSTERY THEATER
We are former childhood and teen theater actors, caterers, executive chefs, food service managers, contract marketing managers, and former 92.1 FM and 1360 AM Greater Philadelphia Radio station weekly talk show hosts... We have helped many 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations for over thirty (30) years by conceptualizing, planning, and producing black-tie affairs, B2B and consumer trade shows, community events, fundraisers, galas, gourmet food festivals — we authored HONEST ABE'S MURDER MYSTERY DINNER THEATRE™ and two (2) more diverse dinner theatre play fundraisers performed in-the-rounds. Today, we are adult actors — "the three Long brothers from another mother + others".
We produced a year in advance the First Annual Haddonfield Gourmet Food Festival (which 10,000 people attended four days after 9/11) — produced the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® WOMEN OF THE VINE food & wine festival at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia (prior to opening season of the Phillies) — featuring Deborah Brenner and the Les Dames d'Escoffier International Philadelphia chapter of female star chefs — founded Catering Events and Caviar, in Schenectady, NY, and Caribbean Night at St. George's Episcopal Church in Schenectady, NY — we founded BATTLE OF THE BARTENDERS™ Philadelphia featuring Jerry Gross and Mark Stevens of The Dovells and TV celebrity and sportscaster judges, Homecrest Kitchens' 45th year Anniversary Open House, and a Nissan® Grand-Reopening Black Tie Gala, etc... Our "General Robert E. Lee" actor is a U.S. Army Veteran.
