Thanks to the invitation of Nicholas Angelakis, owner of Colonial Farms Market in Washington Crossing, members of the Club collected monies to provide holiday meals for needy veterans. A tremendous debt of gratitude is owed to the dozens of the market's customers who made donations to this worthy cause.
Irv Perlstein, Nick Angelakis and Alan Agree
Dick Newbert
As has been the case during similar fundraising drives, Irv, Alan and Dick had the opportunity to chat with many of the folks to made contributions. Among today's most memorable donors were ..
A lady who told us about a young man who enlisted in the Marines at 17 just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. After completing his training at Paris Island, GA, he was shipped off the the Pacific Theater where he fought at Guam, Truk and finally at Iwo Jima. After the war, she met him, they married and shared a sixty-plus year marrige and passed away only a few weeks ago.
The son of another World War II veteran who stormed the Normandy beaches on D-Day and fought at St. Lo where he was wounded. He subsequently spent a year in a German Prisoner of War camp.
A doctor serving at the VA hospital in Philadelphia where wounded soldiers from Vietnam were transported… first to McGuire Air Force Base and then driven in busses with their windows painted over to prevent people form seeing the injured to Philadelphia. Many of those men arrived less than 36 hours after being wounded . Amazing!
In just four hours these wonderful and generous people donated just over $400!