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sl8

(17,147 posts)
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 07:37 AM Oct 2024

Veteran Buddy Check Week

https://department.va.gov/veterans-experience/va-veteran-buddy-checks/

Veteran Buddy Checks

Join us online for the first-ever Veteran Buddy Check Summit October 22, 2024, 9:00 to 11:15 a.m. ET.

Veteran Buddy Checks encourage Veterans to connect or reconnect with their Veteran friends–just to check in. As part of the effort, Veteran Buddy Check Week, which takes place October 21 – 25, 2024, builds on the success of the American Legion’s Buddy Check program and the Veteran Wellness Alliance’s Get Involved program.

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Veteran Buddy Check Week (Original Post) sl8 Oct 2024 OP
I reconnected with the guy who had been my tank commander in the Gulf. Aristus Oct 2024 #1
Kick. usonian Oct 2024 #2

Aristus

(72,525 posts)
1. I reconnected with the guy who had been my tank commander in the Gulf.
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 09:08 AM
Oct 2024

Found out he was a raging right-winger (although that wasn’t a surprise), and a creep with a taste for women young enough to be his granddaughters.

I un-friended him pretty quickly.

usonian

(26,596 posts)
2. Kick.
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 12:45 PM
Oct 2024

I emailed three vets “near” me, so that’s like 50 miles.

Good to hear that they’re doing OK.

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