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The Polack MSgt

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2. They raise a bunch of money and spend much of it
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 02:22 PM
Oct 2018

Raising more money

I always advise the Vets and well wishers who have asked me to donate locally.

A quick google search will usually show a local TBI support group, veteran's addiction treatment center or home renovation projects for disabled Vets .

These are things you can see and know - Local efforts and with local people who can be accountable to their community.

I won't go as far as calling the WWP frauds, but I do feel that there are much better options.

All of this is colored by my experiences as a Trustee and Junior Vice Commander at my VFW post - I dealt with several Veteran centric Charities.

Sometimes coordinating fundraisers sometimes donating to them outright with Post money.

IMHO, WWP has cool looking T-shirts and stickers and not much presence on the ground - at least in the St Louis area.

All that said, $160 million is a nice ass check and I appreciate their gift.

If you are interested, this facility and our post have a long relationship and the Lady who runs the facility is one of the finest people I've ever met:
https://www.thejosephcenter.org/about.html

They can always use a check

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