AMVETS post helps troops overseas

Staff photo by Mary Kemper Members of AMVETS Post 92, Jensen Beach, and others, who help prepare packages for troops serving overseas include, from left, standing, Linda Powell, Richard Heitmann, Rose Reynolds, Valli Seidle, Debra Hudson and  Bruce Hudson; seated, Pamela Rice, Pam McAvoy and Ed Berzenski. Behind the group are some of the many packages ready to be mailed to the troops, containing items in high demand in combat conditions.

Staff photo by Mary Kemper
Members of AMVETS Post 92, Jensen Beach, and others, who help prepare packages for troops serving overseas include, from left, standing, Linda Powell, Richard Heitmann, Rose Reynolds, Valli Seidle, Debra Hudson and Bruce Hudson; seated, Pamela Rice, Pam McAvoy and Ed Berzenski. Behind the group are some of the many packages ready to be mailed to the troops, containing items in high demand in combat conditions.

Mary Kemper
Staff Writer
It all began at “Doc’s Bunker,” a stand maintained at the annual Vietnam and All Veterans reunion in Melbourne.
It turned into hundreds, if not thousands, of troops serving overseas getting welcome gifts from home.
AMVETS Post 92 members assemble and ship the packages at the post in Jensen Beach on a regular basis, containing such needed items as personal hygiene products, but also specialized ones, depending on a particular unit’s needs, according to post commander Bruce Hudson, a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War.

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