Presidential Service Awards

Additionally, the President of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame Society annually awards the Presidents Award to a worthy Society member who has contributed the most for the good of the Society.

Recipients:
2019 - David Rose - View Citation
​2020 - Tom Gates - View Citation
​2021 - Tom Rice - View Citation
2022 - John Haynes - View Citation
​2023 - Lew Wilson - View Citation

Volunteer Service Awards to the Big Bend Honor Guard.
​Awarded March 26, 2021 at the AmVet Command Post in Tallahassee, FL.

Tom Rice receiving the Silver Presidential Volunteering Service Medal from Donald J. Trump and presented by David Rose

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Donald Courtney received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award nominated by Gill Ruderman and presented in  the Manatee Country Court House during a Cabinet Meeting.

Annual Service Awards

Scroll down the page for the Lifetime Award information and application form.

In addition to awarding Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame and Department of Defense Vietnam War 50th Commemoration awards to Vietnam War Veterans, Blue Star Surviving Spouses and Gold Star Families, the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame is now vetted and certified as an organization qualified to award the Presidential Service Awards to qualifying veterans for their volunteer service time. As a member of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame Society, you are encouraged to seek and find other veterans who are generous with their time and give back to other veterans to nominate them for this award. However, it is not necessary that you be a member of the Society or that you even be a veteran in order to nominate a veteran for the Presidential Service Award. There are lots of ways to be awarded the Presidential Service Award for lots of types of volunteer service thru other organizations, but the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame Society is specializing in veteran service because we are a veteran organization ourselves.

There are 4 service awards available for Florida veterans from the Society. The Bronze, the Silver and the Gold awards are annual awards for service within a 12 month period. See the breakdown in the chart below. The fourth award is a lifetime award that is issued by the Society directly from the President of the Society. The Presidential Service Awards organization is not awarding lifetime awards at this time, so the Society is awarding them directly from our Society President.

​Bronze Award: 100 to 249 Hours - Silver Award: 250 to 499 Hours - Gold Award: 500+ Hours of veteran service

There is no deadline for the Presidential Service Awards. Nominations can be submitted at any time. Here is the process:

• Submit nomination
• Your nomination is reviewed by a committee
• Upon approval by the committee, your medals will be ordered from Washington DC
• Your awards will be delivered to a Florida regional Society member
• The Regional Society member will schedule with you a time and location for you to receive your award.

How to apply for the Bronze, Silver or Gold Annual Awards

1. The service award nominee must be a Florida veteran, Blue Star Surviving Spouse or Gold Star Family
2. Attach nominee DD214 (if available and if applicable. It's not a requirement)
3. The nominators name, address and contact information
4. The nominees name, address and contact information
5. One reference in addition to the nominator with name, address and contacts. This reference should be a volunteer coordinator or officer of the organization with which the veteran volunteered.
6. An outline of organizations, dates and hours of qualifying service time
7. The nominees service hours should be counted within any 12 month period.
8. Please fill the form below for the annual awards. The lifetime award is farther down the page.

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Veteran Lifetime Service Award

The Presidential Service Award organization is not currently offering the lifetime service award so the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame Society is awarding it's own lifetime award for Veteran volunteer service in the state of Florida. The application rules are simple:

1. ​Nominee must be a Florida Veteran, Blue Star Surviving Spouses or Gold Star Families
2. Nominator need not be a veteran or a member of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame Society
3. Provide form DD214 of nominee if available and if applicable.
4. Must have veteran related volunteer lifetime hours totaling 4000 or more.
5. Must declare reasonable proof of hours (we know you don't document every hour)
6. Must provide two references who can testify to your service hours and service quality
7. Must provide a narrative from the nominator as to why this veteran is being nominated for this award.
8. Must submit the application form below.
9. There is no deadline. Submit nominations at any time. A member of the Society will schedule a time and place for you to receive the award in your own community.

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