Vets can help needy vets

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If you’re a veteran and you’re doing OK, consider stepping up to help other veterans who aren’t. There are quite a few ways you can help. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Do a fundraiser to send a few veterans on vacation. There are a number of resorts where vets and their families can stay for free, but the airfare to get there isn’t covered.
• Take over the yard work this summer for a disabled veteran. Ask if anything else is needed. Paint the porch? Lay a new kitchen floor? Gather other veterans with skills to do that, and get it done.
• Don’t leave the kids out. If one needs new soccer cleats or rides to practice, ask the parents if you can make that happen.
• At the next local job fair, see if your company can set up a booth dedicated to veterans.
• Volunteer at a few Stand Downs in your area. Same goes for any local veterans wheelchair, adaptive sports or senior games.
• Start now to collect toys for children of veterans for the holiday season. Then take a veteran’s family under your wing and have your company or church group sponsor them with food and gifts.
• Can you drive a vet getting treatment to the nearest veterans medical center? Call Volunteer Services at the center and ask if you can help.

If you’re not in a veterans group such as American Legion or Veterans of Foreign Wars because there’s no group near you, go online and search “veterans helping veterans.” You’ll find something you can do by yourself or with a few other veteran buddies.

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