Ben Owen

Like right in the middle of this, somebody finally checks our mail and the IRS had approved Flanders Fields as a nonprofit on the 15th of August, the day Kabul fell. So now I've got all of this going on, but now I have a mechanism to raise money because Flanders was chartered to help.

house homeless veterans did not say anything about american veterans we've got all these allied members of the afghan national army that we're trying to help we've got former commandos we're trying to help jess at this by this point time has her own little small entourage of former afghan female police officers um

house homeless veterans did not say anything about american veterans we've got all these allied members of the afghan national army that we're trying to help we've got former commandos we're trying to help jess at this by this point time has her own little small entourage of former afghan female police officers um

house homeless veterans did not say anything about american veterans we've got all these allied members of the afghan national army that we're trying to help we've got former commandos we're trying to help jess at this by this point time has her own little small entourage of former afghan female police officers um

And then when the bomb goes off at Abbey Gate, you know, we couldn't get anybody else inside the airport. That was it, it was curtains. But we've already moved all these people from the sticks of Afghanistan to Kabul, trying to get them into the airport and evacuate them. And so the need became immediately apparent for safe housing.

And then when the bomb goes off at Abbey Gate, you know, we couldn't get anybody else inside the airport. That was it, it was curtains. But we've already moved all these people from the sticks of Afghanistan to Kabul, trying to get them into the airport and evacuate them. And so the need became immediately apparent for safe housing.

And then when the bomb goes off at Abbey Gate, you know, we couldn't get anybody else inside the airport. That was it, it was curtains. But we've already moved all these people from the sticks of Afghanistan to Kabul, trying to get them into the airport and evacuate them. And so the need became immediately apparent for safe housing.

And in these signal chat rooms, there was all sorts of people freaking out about the legality of this, the legality of that. Do we need to do something with the Foreign Agent Registration Act? What's the Logan Act? All this crap I've never heard of, nor do I give a flying fuck about. I'm barely two years away from being a criminal, so I don't care at all.

And in these signal chat rooms, there was all sorts of people freaking out about the legality of this, the legality of that. Do we need to do something with the Foreign Agent Registration Act? What's the Logan Act? All this crap I've never heard of, nor do I give a flying fuck about. I'm barely two years away from being a criminal, so I don't care at all.

And in these signal chat rooms, there was all sorts of people freaking out about the legality of this, the legality of that. Do we need to do something with the Foreign Agent Registration Act? What's the Logan Act? All this crap I've never heard of, nor do I give a flying fuck about. I'm barely two years away from being a criminal, so I don't care at all.

I'm going to find out if I can lease an apartment in Kabul. I'll be back in 10 minutes. So I call my guy back at Fort Bragg. He's like, yeah, my cousin's a real estate agent. What do you need? I was like, I need safe houses. So next thing I know, I'm signing a lease in Dari, all right, or Farsi or whatever. I don't even know what the fuck it was. So we're signing leases in Afghanistan.

I'm going to find out if I can lease an apartment in Kabul. I'll be back in 10 minutes. So I call my guy back at Fort Bragg. He's like, yeah, my cousin's a real estate agent. What do you need? I was like, I need safe houses. So next thing I know, I'm signing a lease in Dari, all right, or Farsi or whatever. I don't even know what the fuck it was. So we're signing leases in Afghanistan.

I'm going to find out if I can lease an apartment in Kabul. I'll be back in 10 minutes. So I call my guy back at Fort Bragg. He's like, yeah, my cousin's a real estate agent. What do you need? I was like, I need safe houses. So next thing I know, I'm signing a lease in Dari, all right, or Farsi or whatever. I don't even know what the fuck it was. So we're signing leases in Afghanistan.

We start putting families in these safe houses because we can't get them out of the airport anymore. And my dream of Flanders Fields and helping homeless and addicted vets has now morphed because my weaponized ADHD went for shiny object syndrome in Kabul, Afghanistan. We ended up, like no bullshit, before it was over, we had 68 safe houses in Afghanistan. We had them in Kabul.

We start putting families in these safe houses because we can't get them out of the airport anymore. And my dream of Flanders Fields and helping homeless and addicted vets has now morphed because my weaponized ADHD went for shiny object syndrome in Kabul, Afghanistan. We ended up, like no bullshit, before it was over, we had 68 safe houses in Afghanistan. We had them in Kabul.

We start putting families in these safe houses because we can't get them out of the airport anymore. And my dream of Flanders Fields and helping homeless and addicted vets has now morphed because my weaponized ADHD went for shiny object syndrome in Kabul, Afghanistan. We ended up, like no bullshit, before it was over, we had 68 safe houses in Afghanistan. We had them in Kabul.

We had them in Kunduz. We had them in Jalalabad. We had them in Helmand. We had them close to Torkham. I'm not sure how close. We had Mazar-e-Sharif. At one point, we were housing 650 former members of the Afghan military. I blew through my kids' college savings. But this whole time, it's just we're learning how to get shit done real fast, real fast, make shit happen. We're making contacts.

We had them in Kunduz. We had them in Jalalabad. We had them in Helmand. We had them close to Torkham. I'm not sure how close. We had Mazar-e-Sharif. At one point, we were housing 650 former members of the Afghan military. I blew through my kids' college savings. But this whole time, it's just we're learning how to get shit done real fast, real fast, make shit happen. We're making contacts.

We had them in Kunduz. We had them in Jalalabad. We had them in Helmand. We had them close to Torkham. I'm not sure how close. We had Mazar-e-Sharif. At one point, we were housing 650 former members of the Afghan military. I blew through my kids' college savings. But this whole time, it's just we're learning how to get shit done real fast, real fast, make shit happen. We're making contacts.

And my life had purpose. And before I know it, I've got two years clean. That's the longest I've had clean since that relapse in 2011. And I'm starting to realize if I maintain a purpose, maybe I actually can stay clean no matter how much money I make. So we've dumped like all of our personal savings into Afghanistan.