The Five Honors Veterans Day with Tunnel to Towers CEO Frank Siller

And that was President Trump honoring Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery earlier. And in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Tunnel to Towers CEO Frank Siller opened a new housing village for homeless veterans. The foundation is also paying off the mortgages of 30 Gold Star families across 22 states. And Frank Stiller is with us now. What a day for you. A very busy day, to say the least. You brought the binder. Well, I brought the binder because, look, we opened up the homeless veteran village right on the Susquehanna River. It is so beautiful. If you saw that land when we broke ground, you know, we have miraculous things that happen for Tunnel to Towers all the time. We cleared the ground. On the ground, it had a... A 9-11 plaque on the ground. Buried under the ground. Somebody had put it there because it's right there when we bought this land. So tell me that God didn't send us this property. It's pretty incredible. But we have it. You see it. It's three stories. It's permanent apartments for homeless veterans. They have 20 comfort homes. They're 500 square foot homes for older. Homeless veterans like the Vietnam veterans, they're going to be there forever. They're not going to go back and assimilate back into society. So we're really proud of that. And the 30 houses that we paid off, homes that we paid off for Gold Star widows whose loved ones died in the line of duty that left young families behind. In the last three years that I've been coming here on the five, on Veterans Day, thank you, Suzanne, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have I have this here now, as you know, I love to show things, accomplishments. It's the twenty seven thousand five hundred names of the families that we took off the heroes that we took off the street. Twenty seven thousand five hundred. And I document them all because we I love showing results. You know, people donate eleven dollars a month. Companies, Home Depot, GM, T-Mobile, you know, give us millions and millions of dollars. Here it is, 27,500. It's not just the housing, but when you go and open the center, you also get the counseling in addition. It's not just a place to sleep. Correct. All the wraparound services that they need to get back into society, because you just can't put a roof over their head, otherwise they wouldn't have been on the street to begin with. You have to get them all the help that they need. In addition to $11 a month and prayers, what can everyone watching do to support your incredible tunnel? Well, I just want to, if you don't mind, I'm just going to read the places because we need money. Yes, yes. Because the homeless veterans is a very expensive proposition. We spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year just on homeless veterans, tunnel to towers. And this being the 25th year, you know, we've delivered 343 mortgage-free homes this year alone, one for each firefighter who died on 9-11. The best way to to do good is to do something and to do something is to pay off three hundred and forty three mortgage free homes for the 25th anniversary. Cleveland, Ohio, Fort Lauderdale, Santa Savannah, San Juan, Jackson, New Jersey, Portland, Kansas City, Seattle, Dallas, Boston, Greensboro, Bradenton, Florida, Bayville, New Jersey, Las Vegas. Denver, Buffalo, Long Island, Birmingham, Charlotte, Atlantic City, Puerto Rico, Jacksonville, Northfield, New Jersey, Orlando, Sacramento, not counting the ones we already opened up in Detroit, in Memphis, in North Charleston, et cetera, et cetera, Riverside. All those are planned? These are open, the ones I just opened, and these are broken ground on already. So, you know, we hope to do five to ten a year. Our goal is to get 100 of these, but the most important thing is that we have case management program where a homeless vet, we work with 1,400 not-for-profits around the country. I could get a phone call tomorrow, and there's a homeless veteran, I don't care where it is in the United States, let's say in Utah, and usually within 24 to 48 hours, we can have that homeless veteran off the street into a hotel. Now, from there, we go and we get them a place. We pay their first month, security, whatever, fix it up, put the furniture inside of them, and then get them services. We have a case manager for that particular person. So they, once again, just don't put them in there. You get them the services they need. So we're really, really proud of the work we're doing. Do some of the homeless veterans have families, have children? Do you get to see them? Oh, thank goodness you asked. The first good thing is, you know, for weeks, for weeks. Yeah. So you think of a homeless veteran, you think of the veteran on the street, right? But of these 27,500 that we've taken off, they have 15,000 kids on the street with them. Think about that. So let's say it's a family of three, a family of four. They're all in the street sleeping out of a car, maybe underneath an overpass. For the 20th anniversary, I did a walk, you know, from the Pentagon to Shanksville to Ground Zero. When I walked, and I was in Harrisburg today, and it all came back to me. I remember walking under an underpass and there were so many homeless under that underpass, you know, five years ago. I remember that. And I talked to several of them and they were home. They were veterans. A couple of them were veterans. And I'm saying to myself, oh, my God. Now, I didn't say that day we're going to do this. We're going to eradicate homelessness amongst our veterans. But I guarantee that planted a seed in my own brain to say that we're going to that we are going to do that. 15,000 kids off the street because of this. How many more homeless veterans are there? Well, so what's the real number? I don't know. To be honest with you, the government says about 40,000. If I took 27,500 off the street, it was 40,000 a couple years ago, too. So we know there's a lot more. So there's some they don't consider homeless if you're sleeping out of a car and it's only six months. You know what I mean? So think about that. I look, just maybe this is a dumb question, but what is it, is there something unique to a veteran that makes them homeless or is it much like anybody else who becomes homeless? It's unique. Yeah. It's unique. They went to war. You know, the person to the left of them was shot, killed. The person to the right were blown up. And think of how many people they had to... Take out. Yeah. And if you see that and do that over and over again, you're going to come back different. You're going to be a different person. You're not the same person you went and you served. So you come back here. Some people can hide it. Some people can deal with it. And some people can't. And those that can't, we can't, as a country, let them stay on the street and the promise from Tunnel to Towers and from American people and your Fox viewers. Oh, my goodness. You are unbelievable. Millions of you. Donate to us every... No, they are just so generous. I can't thank them enough. They're part of this. So when we opened up Harrisburg today, they were part of that. They had $11 or $20 or, you know, whatever you can do a month. That's where their money is going. You could see it's tangible. I'm a results-driven, I said it before. Well, you spend their money well, and people recognize that. Jesse, that huge... Donation, you're going to announce. The same one he made last year. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're looking forward to it. We're going to announce it right now. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. After the break, I think. Uh-huh. Frank, thank you so much. Thank you. I can't thank you. I can't thank you. And we love you guys. 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