Garden City DAR Chapter Supports Our Veterans

Members of the Colonel Aaron Ogden Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution were among the 120 people who turned out in force on Veterans Day, November 11th, to support our veterans at the annual Veteran-Patient Luncheon at Captain Bill's Restaurant in Bay Shore. Working to enrich the lives of our veterans is a traditional pillar of the NSDAR across the nation.

District X & XI Daughters in 16 NSDAR chapters from Queens to the Hamptons, attend this event, making the luncheon an annual success. Chapter Regent Carla Hall D'Ambra and 13 members of the Garden City based chapter, along with several husbands and one child, attended the luncheon. Money was generously raised for the St. Albans Medical Center in Queens and the Northport Veterans Administration Hospital in Suffolk. Daughters also donated a truckload of food for two local food pantries that serve our veterans, and new warm blankets were collected for the Veteran's Place, a veteran's shelter in Yaphank.

Luncheon attendees were fascinated to learn about the work of the "America's VetDogs" program, a not-for-profit that supplies service dogs to veterans with disabilities, allowing those who've served our country to live in self-reliance. Trained for two years, these dogs assist veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress and a variety of other challenges our beloved veterans face. The service dogs attending the luncheon stole the show.

Daughters were happy to express their appreciation by writing out Thanksgiving cards thanking our veterans for their service and wishing them a happy holiday.

For more information on how you can donate to this amazing service dog program, America's VetDogs :www.vetdogs.org or call (631) 930-9090.