Like thunder and lightning, Nancy and her dedication to America’s veterans are inseparable. Nancy’s 1967 USO tour in Vietnam raised her awareness: “It was an absolutely life-altering experience,” Nancy reveals in the Sugar CD notes. Elaborating in her 1985 book, Frank Sinatra, My Father, Nancy recounts how her visit to the troops had a profound impact on her:
“[...] when your body is there and your same eyes are seeing, not pictures of people, but people, something snaps. At the same time, something connects between your eyes and your soul.
“I saw the unseeable, the unthinkable, for real, not via Walter Cronkite’s comfortable voice on the evening news. ‘And that’s the way it is’ took on a harsh new meaning for me.”
On the December 3, 2004 episode of The Tony Danza Show, Nancy expresses her commitment to helping veterans.
One of the ways in which Nancy honors veterans is her participation in the annual Memorial Day weekend Rolling Thunder events in Washington, D.C.
inside the Federal Building in Westwood. My information is that the authorities were taking copious notes while Simmons spoke. Insiders also tell me that federal investigations are now ongoing into not just one embezzlement and cover-up inside the SAG P&H Plan but also another fraud and cover-up there which makes two scandals altogether. I understand the FBI asked Simmons not to go public about the probes and he has not spoken publicly about his whistleblowing. [See Simmons' letter 