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Honor the service. Preserve the story. Build the legacy.
American Veteran Vault was founded on July 4, 2026 as a permanent national institution for military stories, family legacies, and service histories — across every era of American service.
Vietnam · Desert Storm · Iraq · Afghanistan · Post-9/11
Built with a governance model, advisory council, and founding charter — designed to outlast any technology cycle, funding period, or administration.
The archive is free. It always will be. Funded by Charter Founders — not by gating access, charging submissions, or selling veteran data.
Vietnam through post-9/11. Army, Navy, USMC, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, National Guard. Living veterans and family legacies equally welcome.
“The stories of the generation before us are still here — but only for a little longer.”
A service record is usually filed once and closed. The Vault is built on the opposite premise — that a life in uniform keeps reaching forward, and that the reaching is the part worth keeping.
Before the rank and the record, someone made a decision. That is where every entry in the Vault begins.
Unit, era, deployment, the ordinary days that never make it into a citation. Preserved in the veteran's own telling wherever possible.
Spouses, parents, children. Service is carried at home too, and that half of the record is almost never written down.
The instinct to look after your own does not retire. It moves to the next household and changes shape.
Letters, photographs, recordings, names. Kept somewhere permanent rather than in a box nobody opens.
A grandchild, decades from now, reading it for the first time. The whole institution exists for that moment.
Most archives are built looking backward. This one is built for the person who has not been born yet.
This archive is kept for the people who were there, and for everyone who comes after them and wants to know what it was like.
A Charter Founder is a person who helped establish the American Veteran Vault at America’s 250th Birthday — before it existed, before the archive launched, before history recorded that it would succeed. Their name is in the founding record. Permanently.
“In just a few words, how do you hope to make a difference?”
Answered at checkout. 250 Charter Members will be invited as inaugural Founding Members based on their answer and mission alignment.
For-profit initiative · Not tax-deductible · Full refund guarantee — see refund policy · Disclaimer
A permanent, searchable national archive — video, audio, written, photographs, documents, and family histories. Free to submit. Free to access. Preserved forever.
Written accounts, video testimonies, and audio oral histories from veterans of every era and branch.
Tribute pages, family military histories, and accounts from spouses, children, parents, and caregivers.
Verified service histories, unit records, and deployment accounts — a searchable national record.
Field letters, correspondence, orders, commendations — primary source material of American military history.
A permanent public archive of veterans honored by name — free to add, free to search, part of the founding record.
Most military archives are organised around a war. This one is organised around people, which means it never finishes taking entries. Someone is serving right now whose record belongs here.
Peacetime service counts. Support roles count. The ones who never deployed count.
All Branches · All Ranks · All ErasSelect Supporter ($49), Charter Founder ($249), or Legacy Founder ($499). Answer the Founding Member Question to be considered for 250 inaugural Founding Members.
Your permanent Founder Number (#0001–#2500) is assigned at payment confirmation in the order received. Digital certificate issued immediately.
The archive opens to the public. Charter Founders get early access. The Founders Registry is sealed. The permanent record begins.
Your name, Founder Number, and enrollment date are in the founding record of the American Veteran Vault — an institutional document that will never be edited or erased.
“Women have served in every conflict. Their stories are part of the founding record.”
The Wall of Gratitude is the permanent public archive of every veteran honored by the people who knew them. Free to add. Free to search. Part of the founding record.
Free · Permanent · Reviewed before publication
An advisory body ensuring the American Veteran Vault remains permanently accountable to the mission it was founded to serve.
Mission guidance and accountability oversight without operational control of the institution or its finances.
Veterans, advocates, historians, and community leaders on staggered 3-year terms for continuity.
A public accounting of archive growth, community reach, and mission progress published every year.
Charter Founders and Founding Members may nominate advisory candidates per the Founders Charter.
Led by a founding team with a clear mandate: establish a permanent national institution for veteran stories at America’s 250th Anniversary.
“He stood beside this flag for fifty years. His name will stand beside it in the archive forever.”
Built with governance, legal structure, advisory oversight, and a founding charter — not just a website.
For-profit initiative · Las Vegas, Nevada · Not affiliated with DoD, VA, or U.S. government
9–13 advisory members · 3-year staggered terms · Annual Impact Report · Founders Charter published July 4, 2026
All submissions free · Archive access free · OPSEC compliance required · Disclaimer
Permanent registry · Numbers assigned at payment · Full refund guarantee — see refund policy
Founding members are paying for an archive, and that is what the Founders Coin buys. Alongside it, the institution is developing a small number of companion projects. None of them are on sale, and none of them are promised. They are listed here because founders should know the direction before they commit.
Personalised pieces carrying a verified veteran's initials, branch and service era — designed as jewellery first.
Family-controlled access to stories, photographs and documents held in the archive, with named permissions.
Concepts extending the archive to the households that carried the service. Scope depends on testing and review.
These projects are in development and are not available for purchase. Nothing above is offered as a safety, medical or emergency service, and no performance claims are made. Specifications, availability and pricing are not final. Founding membership includes the Founders Coin and Registry entry only.
America turns 250 only once. The Vault was established at America’s 250th — at this specific moment in history — because this moment will not come again. Your name. Your number. Your legacy. Permanent.
2,500 Charter Founders · Enrolling Now · Not affiliated with the DoD or VA · For-profit initiative · Not tax-deductible
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