Hats For American Heroes was born out of a desire to help the community. American Hat Makers started the program ultimately as a way to make their hats more easily accessible to military veterans. By partnering with American Dream U, American Hat Makers was more easily able to cater the program to the needs of veterans, and were invited out to Washington, D.C. to tour the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and for president Garth Watrous to speak at an event hosted by American Dream U at the Joint Base Myers-Henderson Hall Community Center. Mr. Watrous provided a speech detailing entrepreneurship to an audience of military veterans, and afterward American Hat Makers hosted a hat giveaway where each attending veteran was able to walk away with a hat of their choice.