Letters: Keep promises to veterans
ISSUE | VETERANS Don't forget them When our food cupboard in Broomall has extra donations, I deliver them to cupboards and homeless shelters in Philadelphia. While I was making a delivery last week, a man who helped me was wearing a Vietnam Veterans cap. I told him that as a young woman, I was a Red Cross volunteer at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, working with Marines and sailors who had served in Vietnam. It was an honor to do so.
ISSUE | VETERANS
Don't forget them
When our food cupboard in Broomall has extra donations, I deliver them to cupboards and homeless shelters in Philadelphia. While I was making a delivery last week, a man who helped me was wearing a Vietnam Veterans cap. I told him that as a young woman, I was a Red Cross volunteer at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, working with Marines and sailors who had served in Vietnam. It was an honor to do so.
When I was leaving, I shook his hand and thanked him for his service. He stood up very tall and saluted me. It was a touching moment I will never forget.
After the political conventions and their rhetoric are done, I hope the promises made to help veterans will not be forgotten. The veterans in the homeless shelters deserve this and much more.
|Maureen Theresa Krepol, Media, mtdirish @aol.com