The end goal of the VFI is to aid in driving down suicide rates by bringing Veterans, Military Service Members, and their families together to form relationships that enhance their desire to serve others and restore comradery - a sense of belonging experienced during military service. True self-worth lies in connecting with and serving others. Therefore, “Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another: and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.” (Hebrews 10: 24-25 KJV).