Monday, November 18, 2013

Veterans recognized on 100th visit to wounded troops

Pictured from left: Frank DeAngelo, Vic Carroll, Justin Hart, Al Meadows, Capt. Tim Huff, Terry Pacitto, and Josh Phillips (veteran of OEF/OIF). / Contributed photo

Six members of the Derby/Shelton AMVETS Post 43 recently participated in Operation Gift Cards’ 100th visit to wounded troops at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
Justin Hart, Associate National Service Director of the Disabled American Veterans, presented the six Post 43 members with a plaque from DAV National Headquarters during their Nov. 4 visit.

The plaque was in recognition of Operation Gift Cards’ 100th visit to Walter Reed. 
The six veterans who participated are also leaders in other veterans organizations which have participated in Operation Gift Cards.
Sixty-eight organizations have co-sponsored Operation Gift Cards visits during the last eight years while distributing over $733,450 in Post exchange gift cards and corporate donations to the wounded troops and their families.
In Connecticut the DAV and AMVETS have formed a partnership in order to expand several programs for helping servicemen and servicewomen, and veterans and their families. 
The programs are: Operation Gift Cards; the Local Veterans Assistance Program which takes veterans from hospitals, homeless shelters, nursing homes, and veterans who are shut-ins, on day trips; and CT Heroes On Wheels which collects and repairs electric wheelchairs, electric scooters, wheelchairs, walkers, and other medical equipment and donates them to veterans and their families.

For more information about Operation Gift Cards or the other programs contact Al Meadows 203 929-3357 al.meadows@snet.net.



This post is taken from a press release from Al Meadows of Shelton.

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