VanDiver is a Navy veteran, the president of @AfghanEvac, vice president of External Affairs at Athenian Group and vice chair of the San Diego Convention Center's board. He lives in Clairemont. He is on X: @ShawnJVanDiver In our journey through life, few truths are as universal as the inevitability of change.
It shows us that when we come together — military veterans and civilians — setting aside the uniform while carrying forward its ethos of service and duty, we can move mountains. We’ve got admirals, ambassadors and corporals working alongside children’s book illustrators, animal shelter operators and retired grandmothers to help bring Afghans to America who face persecution because they worked for the U.S. military when it had thousands of troops in the Asian nation.