Tag Archives: Joining Forces

Veteran Tribute: Military Care Package Team Building

The Game In Veteran Tribute, teams build care packages to be given to disabled, under-served and homeless military veterans. Veteran Tribute is designed by Quixote Consulting founder Rob Fletcher. Rob is the co-author the award winning Remembrance: A Tribute to America’s Veterans book with his father Robert A Fletcher, a Korean War veteran. The Remembrance military tribute [...]
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Quest Quote

“On this Veterans Day…let us pray that there will be no more veterans of any further wars, not because all have perished but because all shall have learned to live together in peace. “ - John F. Kennedy Quixote Consulting has three military charity team building activities: Military Salute: Team Soldier Care Package Building Veteran [...]
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The History of Veterans Day

The following is from Remembrance: A Tribute to America’s Veterans, a book I co-wrote with my father Robert A. Fletcher. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, armistice was signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany. The year was 1918. Now 11-11-11 is almost here, and almost [...]
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Teams Joining Forces during WWII – The Home Front

The following is from Remembrance: A Tribute to America’s Veterans, a book I co-wrote with my father Robert A. Fletcher. The poster is famous: Rosie the Riveter in coveralls and red handkerchief, rolling her sleeves up and declaring, “We can do it!” America agreed, and the “home front” produced an astounding amount of war material [...]
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Teams Joining Forces: Helping Military Families

In Teams Joining Forces, teams craft care packages to be given to military families with soldiers stationed overseas. Teams Joining Forces is designed by Quixote Consulting founder Rob Fletcher. Rob is the co-author of the award winning Remembrance: A Tribute to America’s Veterans book with his father Robert A Fletcher, a Korean War veteran. The [...]
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‘Welder’ by Irene Carlisle – A ‘Teams Joining Forces’ Pocket Poem

This Pocket Poem, originally in the Saturday Evening Post in February 1945, was written by a ‘Rosie the Riveter’, Irene Carlisle. Here she is reading it, recorded in the nursing home where she lives by her daughter. You can find this poem and the recording of it in Remembrance: A Tribute to America’s Veterans, a [...]
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The story behind the 4th of July Band Concert at West Point

The following is from Remembrance: A Tribute to America’s Veterans, a book I co-wrote with my father Robert A. Fletcher. Every year, veterans, families, and cadets enjoy the annual Fourth of July band concert at sunset at West Point Military Academy in New York. West Point occupies 16,000 acres on the west bank of the [...]
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Military Salute: Team Soldier Care Package Building

The Game: In Military Salute, teams build soldier care packages to be given to soldiers stationed overseas. Military Salute is designed by Quixote Consulting founder Rob Fletcher. Rob is the co-author the award winning Remembrance: A Tribute to America’s Veterans book with his father Robert A Fletcher, a Korean War veteran. The Remembrance military tribute project inspired [...]
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