"Honoring Their Sacrifice. Protecting Their Legacy"
Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline
About
Our Origin Story
Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline was created in honor and loving memory of Army Private Kimberly Copeland, killed March 31, 2017 - at the age of 21. She joined the military with a passion for protecting others and a love for our country. Her commanding officers all said that Kim was only in competition with herself, constantly improving upon herself. But, she was always looking out for brothers and sisters in her unit, to help them achieve and succeed. It is with this spirit that we approach our mission, every single day.
Following Kim's death, the family found themselves in an endless circle of frustration in addition to the pain of loss. Literally everything that could go wrong did go wrong. The military provided very limited, conflicting and incorrect information, blaming everyone else for the mistakes and added problems. After 2 years of getting no help or answers, running up the chain of command multiple times, they were told time limitations were exceeded and the family was basically out of luck.
Our Founder (and Kimberly's father), Todd Copeland, started shifting all of his attention to finding answers and coming up with solutions. As he found other families in need, he started developing a database of assistance and resources, helping them along the way. The more he could help, the more it drove him to do more, broadening databases to include hundreds of resources - military, civilian, private, corporate, charitable and more. Three years after his own loss - he formalized it in the creation of Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline.
We must do everything we can to honor the fallen
and to protect the legacy...the FAMILY they leave behind.
Our Mission
Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline has a vision and mission to achieve and we need as much help as we can get. That mission is to protect the families of our fallen heroes. It's that simple. Absolutely no military family should be made to suffer more after already making the ultimate sacrifice.
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Our goal is to keep growing, adjusting, adapting any obstacles to do what is necessary. Databases, guidance and urgent assistance is only the beginning. It is nothing less than Private Copeland would do. How could we do any less.
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We must do more!
Mere words cannot repay the debt they have paid for us.
We MUST take action and honor their sacrifice.
Our Partnerships
Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline could do what we do without the many friends and partnership we have developed over many years. We have no ego. Our end-goal is always to provide the best and most appropriate assistance possible. We love to work with any group or organization that helps us to do just that.
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Government - Military - Corporate - Private - Religious
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The number of partnerships we have is too numerous to list them all. But our very first grants came from a few of them. Today, we receive a steady and growing flow of referrals between all of us. We work together - and separately - to help as many families as we can. We will be enhancing our website over the next year to include a list of our top partners and donors.